Welcome!   Open source projects provide you with the means and mechanism to address inadequacies and improve a project.  As a member of an open source community you are empowered to correct any deficiency in a project.  If you identify a deficiency, the onus is on you to address it by making recommendations, writing up the issue(s) in Jira, creating a software fix, or correcting an error in the documentation.    

Open source allow us to:

1. Engage communities whose needs are not met by commercial-off-the-self (COTS) solutions. 
2. Create innovative solutions leveraging state-of-the-art open source infrastructures and standards.
3. Share the cost of development across multiple communities so no one community is burdened with the entire cost of development.
4. Design solutions that are extensible and can evolve with a communities needs through open architectures and clearly defined data driven interfaces.
5. Make these solutions available to the masses through the University of Illinois / NCSA Open Source License

The University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License

The University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License is registered at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.

The University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License

Copyright (c) <Year> <Owner Organization Name>

Developed by:

<Name of Development Group>
<Name of Institution>
<URL for Development Group/Institution>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
• Neither the names of <Name of Development Group, Name of Institution>, nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.