In order to improve Big Sister we need your help. There are many ways how you can contribute:
Help other Big Sister users/admins
Actively participate in the mailing lists, answer
requests in the support, bug
or feature request trackers.
Contribute code or documentation
Participating in development process is the most direct way of contribution.
Please send me your patches, modules,
etc. Experienced developers can get direct write access to the source code.
Make a donation
The potentially most straightforward way of supporting the Big Sister project
is to make a donation. Besides donating financially,
Hardware and Software donations for our Lab are a real help (see also above).
The easiest way to donate is via PayPal:
Donate special Hardware and Systems
Developing a monitoring software without having access to systems this software should monitor is a little bit difficult. Hardware / Software donations for our Lab is a good way of getting us to implement specific sensoring modules. Also, offering access to special hardware and systems we can run tests against is a good thing.
In most cases we do not need leading edge hardware. Most often, the ways of getting system information out of a device does not change too dramatically. For instance, in order to test SNMP ethernet switch monitoring, an old 100base-T switch with a few ports your company is going to throw out is pretty as useful as the expensive 64-port Gigabit-Ethernet switch ...
