Community Organisation - Community Event Management

What is it about?

An event management system is provided within the OpenFOAM®-Extend Community portal in order to stimulate regular community events such as trainings, summer schools, user meetings, workshops or conferences all over the world. For this purpose, the event management enables to all functionalities needed to organise an event related to the OpenFOAM®-CFD toolbox - by providing basic information about the event/the venue and by providing registration and survey/poll capabilities. In order to further promote and advertise events an iCal file of all events is provided for download.

An abstract submission system as well as a payment system is planned.

How to contribute?

If you want to organise your OpenFOAM®-related event you are invited to do so using the event management system at

http://www.extend-project.de/news-and-events/detailed-categories

Community Organisation - Discussion Boards & Mailing Lists

What is it about?

In order to enable all sub-groups (see below) to communicate, a discussion board system forms the basis of the sub-group messaging system within the OpenFOAM®-Extend project. Further there is the possibility for wall posts and private messaging. All is intended to stimulate concerted and efficient community-driven development of the OpenFOAM® CFD toolbox within the OpenFOAM®-Extend Project.

The official user forum can be found at www.cfd-online.com.

Further the following mailing list are available:

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How to contribute?

In case you have an issue which is related to specific features of OpenFOAM®-Extend or to the work of a sub-group within the OpenFOAM®-Extend project feel free to start a discussion either using a discussion board or the mailing lists.

Please avoid double posts, i.e. do not post here and in the forum at www.cfd-online.com to avoid confusion.

Community Organisation - Network and Board System

What is it about?

For the community organisation into topic-specific and functional sub-groups a network component is provided within the OpenFOAM®-Extend Project. This offers all facilities needed to communicate among the members of the OpenFOAM® community via group discussion boards & messaging systems. If you are under the impression that a sub-group is missing your are invited to create one under

http://www.extend-project.de/user-groups/groups

Currently the following categories are made available for sub-groups

• Local User Groups
• Special Interest Groups
• OpenFOAM® Development
• OpenFOAM® Usage
• OpenFOAM® Other

Further a board system enables to networking. This can be categorised into three sub-boards, namely

1. OpenFOAM® Clusters
   You are invited to list your institution, company or business as a cluster having sound expertise in using and/or developing OpenFOAM® technology. Feel free to provide detailed informations about your field of activity and your expertise on OpenFOAM® to its community.The locations of all clusters will be directed to the world map below, giving a (clickable) overview of the international OpenFOAM® community's network.
2. Academic Board
   All information undergraduates, graduate students and Postdocs need when searching a scientific work (Internship, Term Thesis, Master Thesis, PhD Thesis, Postdoc) around OpenFOAM®. University Institutes and Scientific Organizations are invited to provide detailed informations on their scientific projects.
3. Professional Board
   The OpenFOAM®-Extend Project aims to stimulate contracted or collaborative development using OpenFOAM® technology worldwide. The main idea is to provide companies a central place to search for professionals and freelancers for their projects around OpenFOAM®.

How to contribute?

Fill in the respective forms available from the left menu panel providing all required information. After a approval phase your sub-group will be created (Menu Section "Community") resp. your content will be hosted within the Network & Board System (Menu Section "Network").