Community
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Mailing list
This group is used to announce new features in the hubverse to the user community. If you would like to become a hubverse community member, go to the hubverse mailing list and click on the +Apply for Membership in this group at the bottom left-hand side of the page.
The Consortium of Infectious Disease Modeling Hubs built the hubverse collaboratively, and we benefit from your contributions.
Monthly community meetings
If you are using the hubverse or are interested in using the hubverse in the future, please consider joining our monthly community hubverse meetings. During these meetings, we provide general updates from a broad mix of developers and public health representatives running hubs or thinking about starting to run hubs.
To join the community hubverse meeting, please send an email to the hubverse group, including your name, email, and a few sentences about how you would like to use the hubverse.
Use and test our software and tools
The hubverse was created for teams to develop and set up collaborative modeling hubs easily, and we benefit from having groups use these tools and tell us about them.
File issues
Let us know if something is not working for you or if something could improve. This could be a bug in the code, a case where the tools are not appropriate for your use case, a problem with the documentation, or something else. Issues can be filed in any of the hubverse repositories. You are also welcome to join the discussion on any existing issue in any of the hubverse repositories.
Contribute code
If you want to contribute to the hubverse, please see the guidelines for contributing.
Join the development team
If you are an experienced programmer interested in joining the development team, we have “development meetings” on all Wednesdays except the first Wednesday of the month. These meetings are for technical updates and discussions about ongoing development tasks.
To join the development team, please send an email to the hubverse group, including your name, email, and a few sentences about what you can contribute to the development team.
Governance
The governing body of the Consortium of Infectious Disease Modeling Hubs is the Coding Council, which comprises of any community member attending one of the periodic virtual meetings. This council generally serves as a deliberative body, discussing and setting directions for new conceptual and software development. Typically, decisions about design and prioritization are made through consensus at the Coding Council level. If differences cannot be solved by consensus, then decisions are passed to the Steering Committee, which comprises three members. Members of the Steering Committee serve one-year terms, with elections occurring in July of each calendar year. Members of the Coding Council may nominate themselves or others to serve on the Steering Committee, and a closed-ballot vote is taken if more than three individuals are nominated. The highest three vote-getters serve on the council.
On July 10, 2024, the following members of the steering committee were elected:
- Evan Ray, US Forecast Hub
- Lucie Contamin, University of Pittsburgh, MIDAS
- Anna Krystalli, R-RSE