Contributing to Psychtoolbox
How to contribute financially to the development and upkeep of the toolbox
Continued development, improvement, maintenance and support of Psychtoolbox itself, and also improvement of the various open-source software components on which Psychtoolbox and other neuroscience toolkits (e.g., PsychoPy) critically depend, including improvements to the Linux operating system as the strongest and most high quality foundation for demanding stimulation and data collection paradigms, requires a lot of highly qualified and highly focused work.
This work is currently (year 2006 - present) mostly carried out by Mario Kleiner, who is now employed to do this work by the Medical Innovations Incubator GmbH (MII) in Tuebingen, Germany.
In order to fund Mario’s work and provide him with the resources to do this job, the MII offers different types of paid services around Psychtoolbox and the use of Linux for neuroscience, e.g., paid feature development and other commercial services.
Please visit the following website, operated by MII, for our offering of commercial development services:
Psychtoolbox itself will stay fully accessible as open-source software. Anybody able and willing to contribute code and ideas of sufficiently high quality is invited to contribute to the open-source code, the documentation on this public community website and Wiki, and to participate and help each other on the public community forum.
Thanks for your participation and support!
How to help develop the toolbox
With Psychtoolbox-3 we have moved to an open source development model, and we welcome contributions from users like yourself. If you improve a particular M file in the Psychtoolbox, we’ll want to incorporate your improved version into the toolbox. Just send us a patch or a pull request in Github against the psychtoolbox-3/psychtoolbox-3 repo.
How to help impove the website
We welcome user contributions and improvements to this website.
Adding material to the wiki portion only requires a GitHub login. You are encouraged to add FAQ entries there concerning common issues, programming pitfalls, or reports about hardware.
To improve the website itself please click the “Edit and fork this page” below and send us a pull request with your changes.
The website is auto-generated from markdown text in the psychtoolbox-3/psychtoolbox-3.github.com repo.
When you get (or just see) a particularly helpful answer on the forum, we’ll all be grateful if you would add it to the Psychtoolbox FAQ to everyone’s benefit. You may want to edit it a bit, deleting the irrelevant and perhaps making the relevant context more explicit.