= 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. Participate in virtual training or watch the recorded training sessions:
 * [http://sahanafoundation.org/programs/training/ Eden Training]
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.
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.