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1. recommend a philosophy or motivation statement for the importance of contributed software to the community

2. identify types of contributions e.g. ingest scripts, documented deploy.properties, Vagrant config, etc

3.  identify other successful communities and their guidelines for contributing.

4. outline a process for moving contributed software from a local project to a community supported and developed project

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• A three to five page white paper recommending guidelines for including contributed software in the VIVO core.   The paper will include:

  • clear recommendations for incorporating contributed applications and tools into the VIVO core project

  • a glossary of definitions identify core concepts and process for the VIVO software development

  • an appendix of examples of existing projects that aren’t part of the VIVO core but could potentially meet the criteria for VIVO contributed software.

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Draft Schedule

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