Prerequisites:
- Familiarity with pull requests and issues.
- Knowledge of Markdown for editing
.mddocuments. - Knowledge of Python and Flask (+Flask RESTful is a plus)
In particular, this community seeks the following types of contributions:
- Ideas: participate in an issue thread or start your own to have your voice heard.
- Resources: submit a pull request to add to RESOURCES.md with links to related content.
- Outline sections: help us ensure that this repository is comprehensive. if there is a topic that is overlooked, please add it, even if it is just a stub in the form of a header and single sentence. Initially, most things fall into this category.
- Writing: contribute your expertise in an area by helping us expand the included content.
- Copy editing: fix typos, clarify language, and generally improve the quality of the content.
- Formatting: help keep content easy to read with consistent formatting.
There is a gitter channel here, channel xasos/UIUC-Open-Data. You're
welcome to drop in and ask questions, discuss bugs and such.
GitHub issues are the primary way for communicating about specific proposed changes to this project.
In both contexts, please follow the conduct guidelines above. Language issues are often contentious and we'd like to keep discussion brief, civil and focused on what we're actually doing, not wandering off into too much imaginary stuff.
- Q: Why?
A: Many university applications and data sources are often of poor quality, so this API was created to alleviate some of those pains. This API allows students and faculty members to build applications on top, to take advantage of otherwise unused data. - Q: Is this provisioned by the University of Illinois?
A: No, this API is not affiliated with UIUC in any way. It would be awesome if the university were to show interest and work with us, to further improve the quality of data provided.
Have another question? Submit a pull request to this file, and it'll be answered!