The CGAP ecosystem is composed of a number of repositories that have been developed over a number of years. With a few small exceptions, most of our source code is available in our GitHub repositories with an open source license of some kind. However, we're very conscious of the fact that there's more to open source than just dumping text into an open source repository.
The first step in that is making it possible at all to make more than one CGAP. Originally, that was not possible, but we've spent more than a year prototyping and testing the technology needed to create high quality, secure, deployments in a relatively automatic way. Some configuration and tuning is still needed, but we're making definite progress, and testing that with a small number of hospital systems.
The next step going forward is to make all of that possible to do in a self-serve way.
When it was just our own little project, we didn't have much of a way for outsiders to contribute, although we did certainly take advantage of open source code that others wrote.
At this point, we're partnering with hospitals who want to help us find the issues in our processes for deploying and maintaining our software, and for collaborating with us on bug fixes and new features. That's still a very custom process and not something for which we have specific guidelines.
But, coming up soon, as we start to move toward a self-serve model, we'll be wanting to create a better way to engage the community. We're working out the details for that now. Watch our "Get Involved" page for details.
If you have suggestions, send us email at [email protected].
At present, our collaborations have been mostly within our own organization or our close partners, and our normal institutional rules suffice. As we open to the public, we'll need a good set of community guidelines to make sure everyone is kind and supportive of one another. If you have suggestions for what works well or doesn't, let us know by sending email at [email protected].