Arvados

h1. 2014-09-17 sprint

h1. Arvados Contributor Wiki

This wiki has information related to the open source project. It's a work in progress, so come back often for updates and feel free to become a contributor.  

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h2. Platform Overview

* [[Introduction to Arvados]]

* [[Technical Architecture]]

* [[Cloud Operating Systems and Virtualization]]

* [[Provenance and Reproducibility]]

* [[Federation and Data Sharing]]

* [[Glossary of Arvados Terms]]

h2. Release Notes

* [[Sprint 2014-04-16]]

h2. Key Components

* [[Keep]], the content addressable distributed storage service

** [[Data Manager]]

* [[Computation and Pipeline Processing]]

* [[System and Metadata Database]] 

** [[REST API Server]]

* [[SDKs]], including the Python library and the CLI "arv" tool

* [[Workbench]], the web-based application for doing day-to-day work in Arvados

h2. Using Arvados

* [[Release Status]] — Important!

* "Documentation Site":http://doc.arvados.org/ — Main page for all the docs. 

* "User Guide":http://doc.arvados.org/user/ — How to manage data and do analysis with Arvados.

* "API Reference":http://doc.arvados.org/api/ — Details about the Arvados APIs.

* "SDK Reference":http://doc.arvados.org/sdk/ — Details about the Arvados SDKs. 

* "Admin Guide":http://doc.arvados.org/admin/ — Basic information about administration. 

* "Install Guide":http://doc.arvados.org/install/ — Instructions for installing Arvados.

h2. Contributing and hacking

* [[Source Tree Overview|Source Tree Overview and Implementation Status]]

* [[Installing a Development Arvados Instance]]

* [[How to Contribute]]

* [[Documentation|Documentation Project]]

* [[Design Principles]]

* [[Proposals]] and work-in-progress design documents

h2. Community

* [[Mission and Principles]]

* [[Governance]]

* [[IRC and Mailing Lists]]

* [[Design Process]]

* [[History]]

* [[Arvados Summit - Fall 2013]]

h2. Legal

* [[Licensing Terms]]