We are a small dev team centered around Denis Vogel, the creator of MaMpf. He started the project on June 4, 2017 out of frustration with the existing tools and their shortcomings when it comes to teaching mathematics and uploading recorded lectures to the web. He has since been the main developer and maintainer of the project and added tons of functionality throughout the years. MaMpf is now used every day by the mathematics department at Heidelberg University to host their lectures. It is constantly being improved and extended.
Denis Vogel was joined by many students along the way working on the project in the role of a payed HiWis (German abbreviation for "Hilsfwissenschaftler", research assistants) at Heidelberg University. They have contributed to the project in various ways, such as implementing new features, fixing bugs, testing the software and improving the documentation.
The idea of MaMpf is to provide free material online to the whole world. In that spirit, the source code for MaMpf is open-source and licensed under the very permissive MIT license, so your university can host their own instance of MaMpf if they want to.
While we welcome contributions from everyone, please keep in mind that we are a very small team and currently cannot provide extensive mentoring or guidance to new external contributors. If you are a HiWi at Heidelberg University, that's of course a different story, but unfortunately, right now we don't have too much time to onboard new developers form the outside. Knowledge transfer is often easier in persona than having to write down everything online. We have done such efforts in our Wiki and continue to improve it as living document but don't expect it to be fully self-contained. Also note that due to MaMpf being very specific to our needs at Heidelberg University, we might reject contributions that are not in line with our vision for the project or too general (or too specific to another university) to be useful for us. Therefore, please open an issue before starting to work on a pull request to discuss your idea with us.
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Check out our Wiki if you are a new MaMpf developer and want to get started with setting up your own local Docker instance and get to know our development workflow and the code structure.