OpenFisca is a free software project and contributors are very welcome!
Feel free to fork the source code repositories on GitHub and send us pull-requests.
You can contact the community to ask for help.
Thanks for enhancing OpenFisca anyway!
OpenFisca is a project being developed under the AGPL-3.0 license. The source code is freely available and modifiable. Please refer to the Publishing results based on OpenFisca page for a detailed explanation of the implications of this provision.
We encourage users to send their comments and suggestions for improvement, and to report any inaccuracy or error they might have found. If you want to participate more actively in its development, know that there are multiple ways contribute to the OpenFisca project.
You can contribute to the development of OpenFisca by reporting errors you would find on the calculation of benefits and taxes.
To enable the OpenFisca developers to solve your problems quickly, please follow these few steps:
Some pieces of legislation are not yet integrated. Given the magnitude of the task, our ambition is to build a community of developers, economists and experts on taxes or social benefits to maintain and improve the software. You can help by following these steps:
From the point of view of someone (developer, economist, etc.) who wants to implement a part of the legislation, for example a new benefit, here are some key steps:
You can also participate in other projects that make use of OpenFisca.