Community
In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as contributors and maintainers pledge to making participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
For more information, please see our Code of Conduct.
There are a range of available resources for user and contributor communities. Our resources and groups are spread across different platforms and geographic regions. More information about these resources can be found below.
User forum
Our User Forum is the main place where user come to seek help, make announcements, share resources, and discuss issues relevant to the software and the community.
Roadmap
The current roadmap for Archivematica can be found on GitHub. This lists current and future release information, as well as areas for future research and development.
Follow to keep up with the latest announcements and connect with other users.GitHub
Archivematica's code is hosted on GitHub. We welcome pull requests and comments related to our code. For further information, please see Contribute Code.
Community Development Meetings
We are beta-testing opportunities for contributors to get more involved with the development process by hosting monthly meetings with Artefactual. The meeting minutes are available on GitHub.
User Groups
There are a number of regional community-run user groups. They provide support, user stories and updates. If you are interested in joining, the full list can be found here.
Contributor Gatherings
Do you contribute code, documentation or issues? If not, do you want to? Gatherings are held at least twice a year for contributors to meet up and talk with each other and Artefactual.
Developer Resources
If you are interested in contributing to the Archivematica project, there are a number of resources available:
- Contributing guidelines
- Contributors Portal
- Architectural Decision Records
- Archivematica Issues Repository
- Issue contribution guidelines
You can start by logging an issue or submitting a pull request to Archivematica, the Storage Service or another dependency.
Want to get involved but not sure where to start? Get in touch at contributors[at]artefactual[dot]com
User Resources
Getting started? There is a short series of videos about Archivematica and its components.
Looking for some user support? There is the Archivematica User Forum and a number of regional user groups you can join. There are also additional videos, presentations and case studies as well as the documentation for guidance.
If you are interested in commercial support from Artefactual, please see our website for the services we offer.
We welcome issues for our code and for documentation updates from all Archivematica users. If you would like to add to or improve Archivematica's documentation, there is a useful guide on how to write and submit pull requests.