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🎈 Start here for current projects, how to get involved, and joining community calls, a resource for new and veteran members
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/overview
- Owner: edgi-govdata-archiving
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2016-12-19T22:06:01.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-01-18T01:15:40.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-18T02:27:07.289Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: documentation, onboarding, project-management
- Homepage:
- Size: 282 KB
- Stars: 118
- Watchers: 27
- Forks: 21
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Roadmap: ROADMAP.md
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# Overview
Welcome to the [Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI)](https://envirodatagov.org/) Government Data Archiving team.
We are:
* Building online tools, helping events, and creating research networks to proactively preserve, archive and track public environmental data and ensure its continued availability
* Indexing millions of government web pages on a weekly basis, tracking changes to them, and producing regular reports
* Working with protocols for resilient, sustainable, distributed data storage networks
This repository is an overview for people who are getting involved in the project.
Our GitHub organization, chat, and in-person events have a [Code of Conduct](/CONDUCT.md) and [Contributor Guidelines](/CONTRIBUTING.md).
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## Get Involved
Welcome to our community! We welcome contributors from many skillsets. Here's how to get started:
1. **Review our [Contributor Guidelines](/CONTRIBUTING.md) and [Code of Conduct](/CONDUCT.md)**
1. If You are just interested in contributing to code on GitHub, **take a look at our [Current Projects](#projects)** or jump straight into one of our "[good-first-issue](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Agood-first-issue+user%3Aedgi-govdata-archiving)" labeled issues!
1. Otherwise, **[fill out our volunteer interest form][volunteer-form]** if you’d like to help with non-programming work or get more involved in the organization.
*Note for IRC users:* (Advanced) If you prefer to use an IRC client, please review these [configuration instructions for Slack's IRC gateway](https://archivers.slack.com/account/gateways).
## Projects
Here are some projects we're building and maintaining right now.
**Want to get involved?** Check out the emoji column to see all the different types of contribution we need for these projects!
| Project (Click through to repo) | Description | Contribution type most needed ([emoji key from All Contributors](https://github.com/kentcdodds/all-contributors#emoji-key))|
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Web Monitoring](https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/web-monitoring) | Tools around monitoring changes to government websites | [📖](# "Documentation") [🐛](# "Bug reports") [💻](# "Code")
| [Walk](https://github.com/qri-io/walk) (Web Monitoring and Archiving) | A system for scraping a BIG list of URLs and processing the results for monitoring and archiving | [✅](# "Tutorials") [⚠️](# "Tests") [📖](# "Documentation") [💻](# "Code") [🐛](# "Bug reports") [👀](# "Reviewed Pull Requests")
| [EIS Search Tool](https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/eis-search) | Making federal environmental impact statements easier to search | [🤔](# "Ideas & Planning") [🐛](# "Bug reports") [💻](# "Code") [⚠️](# "Tests") [📖](# "Documentation") [🎨](# "Design") [📓](# "User Testing")
| [Data Together](https://github.com/datatogether/datatogether) | Developing a distributed model for holding copies of archived and preserved data by reading, talking, and prototyping together | [📝](# "Blogposts") [🎨](# "Design") [💡](# "Examples") [📋](# "Event Organizers") [🤔](# "Ideas & Planning") [📢](# "Talks") [🚇](# "Infrastructure (Hosting, Build-Tools, etc)")
|[100 Days](https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/100days) | Website for EDGI 100 Days Report at [100days. envirodatagov.org](https://100days.envirodatagov.org/) (in maintenance) | [🐛](# "Bug reports")
| [Website](https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/edgi-website) | Project management and design support for EDGI's website at [envirodatagov.org](https://envirodatagov.org/) | [🐛](# "Bug reports") [💻](# "Code") [🎨](# "Design") [🤔](# "Ideas & Planning") [🖋](# "Content (e.g. website copy)")
| [EDGI Hubot](https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/edgi-hubot) | Chat bot for EDGI Slack built on the Hubot framework | [📖](# "Documentation") [💻](# "Code")
| [EDGI Scripts](https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/edgi-scripts) | Code scripts for running and maintaining our digital infrastructure | [💻](# "Code") [✅](# "Tutorials") [📖](# "Documentation")
| [Video Call Landing Page](https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/video-call-landing-page) | Landing page app with important info that participants can be sent through prior to joining a video call
[http://edgi-video-call-landing-page.herokuapp.com/](http://edgi-video-call-landing-page.herokuapp.com/) | [🐛](# "Bug reports")
## Working Openly
EDGI operates under horizontal-organizing principles. We have developed guidelines for open project development in line with these principles, which you can find in this repo:
- [Volunteer Code of Conduct](/CONDUCT.md)
- [Contributing Guidelines](/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [Community Call, Onboarding, and Project Guidelines](/repo_guidelines.md)
## Funding
*Our work is made possible through volunteer labor, grants, and direct tax-deductible donations from the public.*
**[Donate to EDGI](https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/pSsqtc9u4WVkEonQbBbU8Q)**
*([More about how EDGI is funded](https://envirodatagov.org/about/how-were-funded/))*
[volunteer-form]: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqvVw5Mq7vZb6tVHqD1k6qKeE_boWW9DuhfU2L4eTVYHvurg/viewform