pyOpenSci

Suggested First Tasks

pyOpenSci puts a lot of effort into ensuring that anyone interested in getting involved knows exactly how to do so. We recommend that freshly minted rigor champions interested in becoming involved with their community do give on of the following a shot to try and get a sense of what this community is all about:

Check out the pyOpenSci discourse community (~5-10 minutes)
pyOpenSci maintains a solid forum that you should feel free to peruse if you want to get a sense for what it’s like to be a part of the community. This is also where you can find everything from guidebooks and tutorials to community updates!

Help out on GitHub!
Got some time to help? pyOpenSci maintains a Help Wanted board that lists all sorts of big and small tasks that they could use some help with. Any issue that is tagged help-wanted in our fair game for anyone to tackle!

Sign up to be a scientific Python package reviewer!
Part of pyOpenSci’s key goals is to operate a peer review process for scientific Python packages. This naturally requires volunteers, and finding reviewers is one of the more challenging parts of the process. pyOpenSci seeks new reviewers from a broad range of scientific domains — some reviewers have extensive packaging expertise and others have domain expertise, so don’t be afraid to apply. pyOpenSci even has a peer review mentorship program should you be new to reviewing. Give it a shot here.