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# How to Help
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Thank you for your interest in [Sonador](https://sonador.oak-tree.tech)! If you would like to help the project, there are many things you can do.
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* **Use the software!** Open source projects exist to solve problems and meet the needs of their users. Sonador exists is to help clinicians, researchers, and developers use medical data to improve human health. Actively using software is one of the best ways to support it, find problems, and limitations.
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* **Work on documentation and support materials.** The more complex a stystem becomes, the more difficult it is to help users understand it, discover capabilities, and use the software to provide value. Because Sonador spans three central pillars of functionality -- [IO](https://sonador.oak-tree.tech/io), [AI](https://sonador.oak-tree.tech/ai), and 3D -- with many interconnected components, there is a lot of material to cover. Guides, technical documentation, how-tos, videos, and more are neeed.
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* **Share your knowledge**. Sonador builds on top medical standards (such as [DICOM](https://www.dicomstandard.org/) and [FHIR](https://www.hl7.org/fhir/overview.html)) and well established libraries such as [PyDICOM](https://pydicom.github.io/), [PyVista](https://docs.pyvista.org/version/stable/), [SimpleITK](https://simpleitk.org/). If you have solutions, articles, or guides that utilize Sonador, please reach-out and let us know. We'll link those here and help to promote them amongst the broader community.
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* **Write code.** Writing code for Sonador is not hard, and you don't need permission. The source code is freely available to be cloned and we welcome contributions from outside individuals and organizations. Refer to [Sonador Development](dev.idnex) for additional information on how to get started.
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* **Integrate with Sonador.** While the capbilities offered by Sonador are impressive, the really cool stuff happens at the integration points. That's where artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing, sensors, and other technologies have the potential to transform medicine and clinical care.
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## Where to Get Help
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Because Sonador is an umbrella project, we use the community forums of the Sonador upstream projects for communication and discussion. The [Oak-Tree Technologies GitLab](https://code.oak-tre.tech) is used for project planning and coordination. [Issues](https://code.oak-tree.tech/groups/oak-tree/medical-imaging/-/issues) and [development milestones](https://code.oak-tree.tech/groups/oak-tree/medical-imaging/-/milestones) are used to track the goals and aims of the project, and to help guide its development.
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Orthanc, OHIF, Slicer 3D, and FreeCAD all have active forums that can be used to provide feedback, seek support, and help other users. Sonador specific topics can be found on all of the them and the core developers actively participate in the communities.
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* [Contact Sonador Development team](https://www.oak-tree.tech/solutions/contact-form): you can get in touch with the Sonador project developers via our contact form, or via the [Oak-Tree Technologies GitLab](https://code.oak-tree.tech).
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* [OHIF Discussion Forum](https://community.ohif.org/): viewer specific issues or frontend development
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* [Orthanc Discourse Forum](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/): DICOM and Orthanc development
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* [Slicer 3D Discourse Forum](https://discourse.slicer.org/): imaging and image processing, computer vision, image guided therapy, and segmentation
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* [FreeCAD](https://forum.freecad.org/): additive manufacturing and 3D printing |
