FireViewer is still a small project, and I want contributing to it to stay simple and welcoming.
People can arrive with very different levels of experience in software, geospatial work, AI, remote sensing, 3D or wildfire research. Nobody is expected to know every part of the project.
Be respectful.
Criticising an idea, implementation or decision is completely fine — including something I designed myself.
Criticising the person instead is not useful.
If you think something is wrong, a source, reproducible example, test case or clear explanation is much more valuable than trying to win an argument.
- technical disagreement;
- questions, including basic ones;
- pointing out mistakes;
- failed reproductions;
- alternative approaches;
- corrections to documentation;
- evidence that contradicts an existing assumption;
- discussion of limitations.
FireViewer deals with uncertainty by design. Finding that something works less well than expected is useful information.
Harassment, discrimination, intimidation, threats, deliberate misinformation, personal attacks or publishing somebody else's private information without permission are not acceptable.
Neither is knowingly presenting fabricated evidence, measurements or research results as real.
FireViewer is not an emergency service, official wildfire authority, incident-command system or certified fire-spread predictor.
Project channels must not be used to impersonate authorities, request emergency assistance or deliberately spread unsupported operational information during an active incident.
Real wildfire material can also contain sensitive information. Please be careful with personal data, contributor information, precise sensitive locations and third-party media.
If something needs to be handled privately, contact:
Do not put sensitive details in a public issue.
Depending on the situation, project maintainers may remove content, issue a warning or restrict participation.
The goal is not to create a large rulebook. It is to keep FireViewer a place where ideas can be challenged without making collaboration hostile.