Community

Join the Conversation

Have a question about GeoBlacklight or want to connect with other users and developers?

• Join the Geo4Lib Slack and look for the #geoblacklight channel
• Join the Geo4Lib Google Group to receive announcements and participate in discussions

Contribute to the Software

We welcome contributions from developers, metadata specialists, designers, and anyone interested in improving geospatial discovery.

• Report an Issue

  Find a bug you want to report? Have an idea for a new feature? Anyone can create an issue in GeoBlacklight's GitHub repository for the community to address.

  Browse and submit issues

• Contribute Code

  As open-source software, GeoBlacklight depends on contributions from our developer community. Anyone is welcome to code for review.

  Read our software contribution guide

• Write Documentation

  Help keep our documentation up-to-date or fix information that is missing or unclear.

  Read our website contribution guide

• Help Triage Issues

  Join our Issue Triage Group, where developers meet quarterly to review and prioritize GitHub issues. Reach out on Slack to join.

  Review our ongoing project board

Join the Geo4Lib Community

GeoBlacklight is part of the Geo4Lib Community, a community of practice for building tools, metadata, and platforms that improve access to geospatial resources in libraries. Visit geo4lib.org to:

• Connect via communication channels
• Find out how to join and participate in meetings, sprints, and conferences
• Volunteer for a community role

GeoBlacklight Project Maintainers

Designated Code Mergers: GeoBlacklight Developers Team

• Review pull requests
• Assign individual code reviewers based on expertise

Release Coordinators: Eric Larson + 1 vacancy

• Cut tags and releases in the GitHub repository, and write release notes
• Publish the GeoBlacklight Ruby gem
• Publish Javascript to npm

Technical Writing Lead: 1 vacancy

• Keep track of code, metadata, and tutorials
• Manage GitHub issues related to documentation
• Coordinate volunteers to update documentation as needed

GeoBlacklight Institutional Contributors

GeoBlacklight has been collaboratively developed by affiliates of the following institutions:

• Auraria Library
• Big Ten Academic Alliance
• Cornell University
• MIT Libraries
• Harvard University Library
• Johns Hopkins University
• New York University Libraries
• Princeton University Library
• Stanford University Libraries
• University of California San Diego
• University of California Berkeley
• University of California Santa Barbara
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• University of Minnesota Libraries
• University of Pennsylvania Libraries
• The University of Texas at Austin
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Feedback

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