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The idea behind Gerris and other free software projects is that
transparency, free exchange of information and cooperation benefit
individuals but also society as a whole. If you are a scientist, you
know that these same principles are also keys to the efficiency of
Science.
Helping with Gerris development can be done in various ways and aside
from giving you this altruistic, warm fuzzy feeling of helping others
will also benefit you directly. A few concrete simple ways of helping
are (in approximate order of difficulty):
- Use the code, comment on the problems you find, what you like, don't like about it.
- Share your results with other Gerris users, write a web page
about the problem you solved using Gerris etc...
- If you publish papers using Gerris, send me the reference. It is
very useful to be able to show evidence of wider usage when seeking
continued funding for the project.
- Also, if Gerris capabilities are central to your article feel
free to ask me to be a co-author on your paper...
- Have a look at the Gerris internals (write your own modules) and share them with us.
- Think of ways to extend Gerris for your own problems, implement
them and share them with us (you can count on my and other
developers' help).
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