The HRE project is a complex undertaking and requires access to volunteers from a wide variety of areas.  Our need at this stage is for skilled volunteers to help us design and write HRE, and to manage our community. If you see yourself as a potential end-user, but aren’t able to volunteer at this point, please keep in touch by joining our mailing list.

If you would like to volunteer your time and have skills in any of the areas listed below please let us know now!

REQUIRED SKILLS

Software development

  • Programming
    • Java and Swing programming
    • Jython / Python programming
    • Use of Eclipse IDE as development platform
    • Java database programming (H2)
  • Design
    • SQL database design
    • GUI design
    • Object Oriented design of features and services
    • Client-Server design
  • Project Management
    • Software Development Team Leaders
    • Quality compliance management
    • GitHub management

Software testing

  • Standard Case Testing (regression and unit)
  • Volunteer Beta Testing (user data sets)

Technical writing, translation and graphic design

  • Documentation
  • Button Icons

Volunteer community communication

  • Open Source community management experience
  • Mailing Lists
  • Website content (WordPress)
  • Media, Publicity and Events
  • Outreach to possible user and organizations

Research Area expertise

  • We welcome approaches from academics and private researchers with expertise in specific areas of historical or genealogical research to help us ensure that HRE is flexible enough to cover as many specialist areas as possible.

To express an interest in volunteering, or to seek more information, please contact us.

Volunteer contributor agreement

We take copyright and our legal responsibilities seriously.  To ensure that the HRE project is legally permitted to make use of our contributors’ copyright, we ask developers and those writing documentation to accept our Volunteer contributor agreement. We ask only for a licence, not for assignment of your copyright.

PLEASE NOTE: We are not yet ready to accept volunteers for beta-testing. If you would like to be notified when we are ready for beta testing, please keep in touch by joining our mailing list.

Please see our disclaimer.