How, or what, can I contribute?

Description: OpenSS7 Frequently Asked Questions #9.

If you would like to contribute to OpenSS7, you can do so in a number of ways:

Participate on the mailing list.

Discussion, peer-review, and shared experiences and best practises are one of the best ways to contribute to the project. See Mailing Lists for instructions on how to subscribed the OpenSS7 mailing lists.

Write driver(s).

It's really not that hard, and your experience with a specific hardware card could be valuable in the development of an OpenSS7 driver.

Give money.

If you have excess funds available and just want to throw a little money our way, you can contact us for our mailing addresses. (Just kidding?)

Test Code or SS7 Conformance.

We are always looking or people to test and verify proper operation of the SS7 state machines and the stack in general. You could do this testing if you have an understanding of conformance testing of SS7 implementations.

Equipment and resources.

If you are a vendor, you can always contribute boards and specifications and we will be interested in them for driver development. Test equipment is always appreciated.

Use the code and contribute improvements.

Improvements can be in the way of bug-fixes, enhancements, drivers, corrections, suggestions. Sometimes the only way to improve a design is to consider the applications which are using it. Please contribute your application success (an, err... failure) stories to the mailing list.

Join the developers.

If you like coding Linux kernel module code... let us know!

Please don't offer to participate in an area in which you are not capable of contributing. Although this is an opensource project, it is not a training facility.