= Want to help Develop Sahana Eden? =

Sahana Eden is an Emergency Development ENvironment - an [wiki:Licence Open Source] framework to rapidly build powerful applications for coordinating preparations for & response to disasters.

We are an active community of Humanitarian FOSS developers from around the world - if you wish to join us then you'll be made to feel very welcome :)

To get started, you should:
1. Sign up to the MailingList.
1. [wiki:InstallationGuidelines Install a Developer Environment]
1. Have a look at the [wiki:Book Sahana Eden Essential Guide Book] and follow the tutorial chapters:
 * [http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/customisation/ Customisation]
 * [http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/building-a-new-application/ Building a New Module]
1. Find a  [wiki:Contribute/Code Code Tasks] to work on
1. Join us on [wiki:Chat Real-time IRC Chat]
To get deeper into Sahana Eden read through the [DeveloperGuidelines Developer Guidelines]. If you're an experienced programmer and wanting to work on a bigger project, look at the [BluePrint BluePrint Page] or [wiki:Projects/Advanced Coding Projects List]

Before you submit code, sign the [[http://bit.ly/SSF-eCLA|Contributor's License Agreement]] -- this says you retain all rights to your code, while allowing us to distribute it and users to use it.