README.md
# Welcome to Mobicoop Platform
Mobicoop Platform is an open source shared mobility platform. It offers an integrated set of shared mobility services: carpooling, hitchhiking support, solidarity transport, and local public transport information.
It is distributed under version 3 of the GNU AFFERO General Public License (GNU AGPLv3).
## Who's behind?
Mobicoop Platform is developed and maintained by **Mobicoop**, a cooperative offering and selling shared mobility services.
Several public authorities, non-profits organizations and more than a thousand individual members are shareholders and final decision-makers of this cooperative. The amount of a share has been set to its lowest value (100€) so that anyone can join. If you want to become a shareholder member of the cooperative, welcome here : https://membres.mobicoop.fr/
## A suite of products
Mobicoop Platform is the key component of several products defining a comprehensive open source suite as a whole:
- **Mobicoop Platform**: the API and the Desktop web client
- **Mobicoop Mobile**: the mobile apps (Android & iOS) and the Mobile web client as a single Progressive Web Application project
- **Mobicoop Admin**: the administration web application of the platform
- **Mobicoop Scope**: the Business Intelligence project on top of the platform
## Contributing
*Thanks for considering to contribute!*
### How to contribute to the source code ?
Mobicoop tech team is open to review Merge Requests you may create. Thus, if you wish to contribute, it is fairly easy:
1. fork the repository you wish to update into a public repo *(so that we can build your code to test it)*
1. create a branch with your patch in your fork public repo
1. create a Merge Request from your branch
### How to contribute to translations ?
Mobicoop Platform is already translated into several languages. If you wish to translate into another language or update and existing translations, please visit https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/mobicoop-platform/
### No issue tracker ? No chat ? No email list ??
All people having a significant experience of open source projects know that opening a project to contributions is an investment. Our clients and shareholders wish that to keep our energy mostly focused on developing new features and services, and not yet on investing massively in building in the long term a strong developer community around the project.
But if the contributions continue to grow, we'll surely have to update this policy and progressively tool and improve this growing contributor's community!
Thanks thus for your contribution, because they matter a lot for us! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Mobicoop Tech Team