🎉 Welcome to the DIYbiophere repository 🎉

We really appreciate your interest in our project and we would ❤️ your contributions!

At the moment, we are working hard 😅 to develop a "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) as they say in the techbiz. Please help us by contributing so we can eventually share it with early adopters! 🤘

The DIYbiosphere is a participatory project to create a database of Do-It-Yourself Biology (DIYbio) initiatives from all over the world. The project is public; open for anyone to add and edit entries, as well as to shape the overall project. The goal is to have a shared and common platform that can connect people and ideas in all its possibilities. With the open data we gather we plan to map and visualize the DIYbio community in all its diversity across time and space in the hopes that we may learn more about the movement and its futures.

We have our own entry in the database! Go check it out!

The database functions similar to a wiki. Each entry has it's own webpage with a written description and a box displaying some of the initiative's data. Instead of using the wiki software we use GitHub Pages to host and build the database from simple text files with Markdown syntax.

You can engage with the DIYbiosphere is many ways (in increasing order of engagement):

• Share this project with your friends and followers! They might be interested in using the database or contributing to it!
• Star the project on GitHub! Starring helps attract potential contributors, especially expert and master contributors!

• Jump into writing entries in the Database:
  • Add a new entry: whether it's your initiative or someone else's
  • Update/edit an existing entry: mispellings, outdated information, or just inaccurate, help us keep the entries error-free!
• Jump into our Issues:
  • Comment or vote on existing issues. Feedback is always appreciated! It helps us know what users and contributors want developed!
  • Submit a new issue. Share with us your suggestions for new features or improvements.
  • Resolve and close an issue. Tackle an issue yourself and help us in the development!

• Join the conversation. You can freely join the Gitter chatroom, or join us on Slack at DIYbiosphere.slack.com. Here we plan the development of the project.
• Join the development community. The project is managed by members of the DIYbiosphere organization. Request an invite and enjoy writing access to the repository!

Get a general Overview of the entire project page and where it is heading next in our Road Map.

See our Getting Started guide to using and contributing to the project. Please follow our Contributing guidelines. We have an ELI5 guide (Explain Like I'm 5) for the utterly confused.

The work in this project is freely available to use, modify and distribute.

The content of the project (entries, data, etc.) is available under the public domain CC0 , and the underlying source-code (HTML, JS, etc.) used to format and display that content is available under the MIT License.

You can review our License file for a human-readable version of the copyright, and our CLA (Contributor License Agreement) to understand in legal terms the rights granted and/or waived from your Contributions.

If you wish to credit our work, please do so as “© DIYbiosphere contributors” or “© DIYbiosphere"