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# Welcome to Alaveteli!

[![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/mysociety/alaveteli.png)](http://travis-ci.org/mysociety/alaveteli) [![Dependency Status](https://gemnasium.com/mysociety/alaveteli.png)](https://gemnasium.com/mysociety/alaveteli) [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/mysociety/alaveteli/badge.png?branch=rails-3-develop)](https://coveralls.io/r/mysociety/alaveteli) [![Code Climate](https://codeclimate.com/github/mysociety/alaveteli.png)](https://codeclimate.com/github/mysociety/alaveteli)
[![Installability: Gold](http://img.shields.io/badge/installability-gold-ffd700.svg "Installability: Gold")](http://mysociety.github.io/installation-standards.html)

This is an open source project to create a standard, internationalised
platform for making Freedom of Information (FOI) requests in different
countries around the world. The software started off life as
[WhatDoTheyKnow](https://www.whatdotheyknow.com), a website produced by
[mySociety](http://mysociety.org) for making FOI requests in the UK.

We hope that by joining forces between teams across the world, we can
all work together on producing the best possible software, and help
move towards a world where governments approach transparency as the
norm, rather than the exception.

Please join our mailing list at
https://groups.google.com/group/alaveteli-dev and introduce yourself, or
drop a line to hello@alaveteli.org to let us know that you're using Alaveteli.

There's lots of useful information and documentation (including a blog)
on [the project website](http://alaveteli.org). There's background
information and notes on [our
wiki](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/wiki/Home/), and upgrade
notes in the [`doc/`
folder](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/tree/master/doc/CHANGES.md)

## How to contribute

If you find what looks like a bug:

* Check the [GitHub issue tracker](http://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/issues/)
  to see if anyone else has reported issue.
* If you don't see anything, create an issue with information on how to reproduce it.

If you want to contribute an enhancement or a fix:

* Fork the project on GitHub.
* Make a topic branch from the rails-3-develop branch.
* Make your changes with tests.
* Commit the changes without making changes to any files that aren't related to your enhancement or fix.
* Send a pull request against the rails-3-develop branch.

Looking for the latest stable release? It's on the
[master branch](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/tree/master).