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Contributing to PUDL

Welcome! We're excited that you're interested in contributing to the Public Utility Data Liberation effort!

We need lots of help with :ref:`user-feedback`, we welcome :ref:`code-contribs`, and it would be great to :ref:`connect-orgs` that we can work with. Financial support via our :ref:`pudl-sustainers` program is always welcome.

PUDL Sustainers

If you use or appreciate PUDL data and want to help ensure that it continues to be openly and freely available to the public (and yourself) please consider becoming a PUDL Sustainer. See the PUDL project profile on Open Collective for more information. Contributions of any size are appreciated. Sustainers at higher tiers are invited to help guide the project's priorities in our quarterly planning process.

Code of Conduct

Please make sure you review our :doc:`code of conduct <code_of_conduct>`, which is based on the Contributor Covenant. We want to make the PUDL project welcoming to contributors with different levels of experience and diverse personal backgrounds.

User feedback

PUDL's goal is to help people use data to make change in the US energy landscape. As such, it's critical that we understand our users' needs! GitHub Discussions is our main forum for all this. Since it's publicly readable, any conversation here can potentially benefit other users too!

We'd love it if you could:

  • Tell us what problems you're running into, in the Help Me! discussion board
  • Tell us about what data you're looking for by opening an issue
  • Tell us what you're trying to do with PUDL data in this thread
  • File bug reports on Github.
  • Tell us what you'd like to see in PUDL in the Ideas discussion board

Code contributions

Connect us with other organizations

For PUDL to make a bigger impact, we need to find more people who need the data. Here's how you can help:

  • Cite PUDL using DOIs from Zenodo if you use the software or data in your own published work.
  • Point us toward appropriate grant funding opportunities and meetings where we might present our work.
  • Point us at interesting publications related to open energy data, open source energy system modeling, how energy policy can be affected by better data, or open source tools we should check out.
  • Share your Jupyter notebooks and other analyses that use PUDL.
  • Hire Catalyst to do analysis for your organization using the PUDL data -- contract work helps us self-fund ongoing open source development.