Contributions can be made by submitting information to the MIDAS Coordination Center, which will then upload the information to the repository, or by making changes to your forked repository and submitting a pull request. Submitting information to the MIDAS Coordination Center can be done by creating an issue in this repository or by email to questions@midasnetwork.us.

1. Create a GitHub account and log in through https://github.com
2. Go to Midas Network repository: https:://github.com/midasnetwork/COVID-19
3. On the upper right corner, click on Fork.
   You have now forked the MIDAS COVID-19 repository into your GitHub account.

To contribute to the COVID-19 repository with GitHub:

1. Create or update new files or sub-directory in YOUR fork repository, in the folder and in the sub-folder corresponding to your contribution:
   • To create a sub-directory within the repo, you must create a New File and add the sub-directory name before the file name: i.e. /SUB-DIR/FILE-NAME.ext
   • To upload local files to your created sub-directory, click the "Upload Files" button, uploaded files can be edited within GitHub by clicking on each file and the edit button.
   • "Commit" all your changes
2. To merge changes into the original repo, a Pull Request must be initiated by you from your fork.
   • This request will be reviewed and merged by owner.
   • Note: All changes must be made from YOUR repo fork.
   • Click on the green Pull Request button.
   • Owners of the MIDAS COVID-19 repo will verify and merge your changes to the original repo

Instructions adapted from Michael Johansson's zika repository:

1. Add your collection of files into the corresponding folder in YOUR fork repository
2. Add a collection_metadata.csv file describing the content of your collection, a template is available here.
3. Add a date_guide.csv file, if necessary, describing the variables used in your data-set, a template is available here.
4. Create a pull-request to update your collection into the repository, a MIDAS staff member will review it before adding it to the repository.

1. Read the Data Guide for Parameter Estimates to ensure your data contains most of the necessary information to contribute to the repository.
2. Create an issue to have a MIDAS staff member add an estimate, or create a pull request to the estimates.csv file to directly append your estimate to the main repository.
3. A MIDAS staff member can add the new estimate to the estimate readme.md file, or create a pull request to the readme.md file to update the listing.

1. Read the Data Guide for Software tools to ensure your data contains most of the necessary information to contribute to the repository.
2. Create an issue to have a MIDAS staff member add a software tool, or create a pull request to the software_catalog.csv file to directly append your listing to the main repository. MIDAS staff will then list the tool on the software tools readme file.

This rapid pre-review platform enables the community to give feedback on pre-prints coming out with modeling and other analyses of the COVID-19 and other outbreaks.

Virological.org is an online discussion forum for analysis and interpretation of virus molecular evolution and epidemiology.

A Slack workspace maintained by Caitlin Rivers (caitlin.rivers@gmail.com) for discussion on COVID-19 research. The workspace includes various channels: general, importation, news, random, publications, forecasting, data, announcements-welcomes