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You want to add a bit to the hackspace infrastructure. We've built up a rough system of how things are done. So here are a few guidelines on how to do this so that other people can work on your code and everything is somewhat organised.

==Languages==

Python seems to be the lingua franca, but lots of us know a little bit of lots of languages. You are just likely to get more contributions to your code if it is python.

==Github==

We have a [https://github.com/londonhackspace github group] for shared code. It would be nice to have everything in one place if we can.  Get access to this by asking on [[IRC]] or submitting a pull requests.  If we're not familiar with your git skills, we may ask you to make a pull request first, just in case.

==Internal Server==

We currently have [[Equipment/Landin#Chomsky|Chomsky]] as an internal general purpose VM. If you require complete control and full root access for web daemons, etc. you are encouraged to spin up another VM on [[Equipment/Landin|Landin]] and document it as such. Ideally you should be able to co-exist on the chomsky and not install yet another web server (i.e. use an Apache VirtualHost instead of installing a completely separate daemon)

Externally facing apps need a bit more thought in terms of security, so use your common sense. Even if you know what you are doing hackers afterwards may not.

You can get an account on [[Equipment/Landin#Chomsky|Chomsky]] by using your [[LDAP]] credentials and get assistance in software installation from several people with sudo access on IRC or via the london-hack-space-infrastructure mailing list.  

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