Get Involved
Learn more about the ways you can get involved with this initiative
Contribute
Your contribution will help make the Simpler Grants.gov experience better for everyone.
Our Vision
The Simpler Grants.gov product vision is to revolutionize the federal grant-making experience by providing an accessible and user-friendly platform that streamlines the entire process, from opportunity discovery to application to post-award reporting.
Our Goal
We aim to empower applicants and partners by implementing an open-source, API-first strategy for Grants.gov, enabling personalized experiences, data accessibility, and seamless integration with third-party tools.
Why Open Source?
At Simpler Grants.gov, we are committed to transparency and collaboration. We embrace open source practices to ensure that all our software tools are accessible for public observation, input, and reuse.
We firmly believe that the most effective solutions are crafted through open collaboration. We are eager to engage with a diverse community of grant-making professionals, applicants, and technology enthusiasts. Your feedback and contributions are not only welcome but integral to our mission. Together, we can simplify the grant-making process and make it more accessible to everyone.
Who we are looking for
Contribute to coding/development
Contribute to feedback and discussion
Join the conversation across our wiki, chat and frequent meetings to learn more.
How to participate
Interested in... | How to Get Involved |
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Introduction to the Open-Source Group | Join our Google group: Google Group |
Office hours | Zoom: Office Hours Come to an office hours session if you want to learn more about how to contribute to the project, discuss issues in GitHub, pair through a GitHub issue, or get help setting up your environment. |
Providing Coding/ Development Support | Contribute code to GitHub - Contributing Guidelines Open "Help Wanted" Issues: GitHub Issues |
Participating in discussions | Join our Slack to have access to real time discussions on Simpler Grants.gov information. Provide your perspective as we grow and develop this community together. |
Technical Contributions
The Simpler Grants community is always searching for open source developers to contribute to the project. Below you will find information about our GitHub and how you can get involved with contributing to Simpler Grants.
Technical ContributionsCommunity Contributions
The Simpler Grants community also hosts ongoing office hours, meetings and other various events on Zoom. Please feel free to join and share your knowledge or learn more about what we do.
Community ContributionsPolicies
Questions about our policies and guidelines? Read through here prior to contributing to understand the bylaws that our community agrees to follow.
Policies and guidelinesReady to Join?
Follow our onboarding checklist to make sure that you are ready and have all the tools that Simpler Grants uses set up. This will help to be successful as a new contributor to the project.
Public Onboarding checklist
Change log
Major updates to the content of this page will be added here.
Date | Update | Notes |
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1/30/2024 | Rough Draft | Initial rough draft of content for welcome page |
2/5/2024 | Rough Draft Updated | Updated Get Involved based on feedback |
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