= Want to help Develop Sahana Eden? =

Sahana Eden is an Emergency Development ENvironment - an [wiki:Licence Open Source] framework to rapidly build powerful applications to support disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.

We are an active global community of Humanitarian FOSS developers and Disaster Management Experts supporting a range of organisations to use Sahana. Whether you’re looking for an opportunity to volunteer or support to use Sahana with your organization, you’ll be made to feel very welcome :)

To get started, you should:
1. Join our [wiki:Chat Real-time IRC Chat] and [MailingList Mailing List] to say Hi!
1. [wiki:InstallationGuidelines Install you Developers Environment]
1. Go through the tutorials in the [wiki:Book Sahana Eden Essential Guide Book]:
 * [http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/customisation/ Customising Sahana Eden]
 * [http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/building-a-new-application/ Building a New Sahana Eden Module]
1. Get familiar with Sahana Eden’s [DeveloperGuidelines/Architecture Architecture] and [wiki:S3 S3 (Sahana Version 3) API]

If you want to volunteer with Sahana, the see the [Contribute/Code Contribute Code] page for how you can get involved. 

If you’re using Sahana in your organization the best way to engage with the community is to create a [Deployments/Guidelines Deployment Page] on the wiki to describe how you’ll be using Sahana and a [BluePrint BluePrint Page]  for any new features that you’d like to develop.

Before we can use code your contribute, you'll need to 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.