[pymvpa] Contributing toward pyMVPA

[Nick Oosterhof]

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> On 06 Sep 2015, at 16:21, Rohit Shinde <rohit.shinde12194 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Background: I am proficient in C++, Java, Python and Scheme. I have taken undergrad courses in machine learning and data mining. 

That knowledge will definitely be useful for Machine Learning. We use mostly Python.

> How can I contribute?

Thanks for being willing to contribute! 
You could start with reading the developer guidelines [1].

> Is there any project I can take up?

We keep a list of issues [2], which gives lots of things (some big, some small) to take up. Suggestions for improvement of the documentation are also welcomed. To get an idea how contributions are handled, you could take a look at the pull request (PR) page [3], in particular the closed PRs.

> Also what prior knowledge would I need?

To get familiar with PyMVPA, you may consider reading the tutorial [4], or look at example analyses [5]. 

[1] http://www.pymvpa.org/devguide.html
[2] https://github.com/PyMVPA/PyMVPA/issues
[3] https://github.com/pulls
[4] http://dev.pymvpa.org/tutorial.html
[5] http://dev.pymvpa.org/examples.html