A lot of people are using Contiki, developing software for Contiki, testing new protocols or mechanisms with Contiki, porting Contiki to new platforms, and extending Contiki with new functionality. To allow such Contiki-based projects to be accessible to all Contiki users, we have set up a new SourceForge project for new Contiki-based open source projects, dubbed the Contiki projects community

We already have a number of projects, such as an RSSI viewer for the Tmote Sky, an IPv6 adaptation of the uAODV code, a TFTP server, a RESTful web server, SafeContiki, an experimental version of Contiki with compile-time safety checks, and more. Interested in getting involved in the Contiki projects community? Read on for details.

The Contiki projects community has three mailing lists:

• contikiprojects-announce, which is used for announcements of new projects,
• contikiprojects-discuss, which is used for discussions around the projects, and
• contikiprojects-commits, which is for automated postings of updates to the projects’ source code.

The Contiki projects has a two-level source code tree. The top-level directory holds a number of subdirectories, which in turn contain the project directories themselves. The subdirectories are intended to hold all source code from a particular institution, company, or group of developers, and are named after the domain name of the institution, company, or group that maintains it. For example, the sics.se/ subdirectory contains projects developed by people who are affiliated with sics.se.

Every project in the Contiki projects community is described in a PROJECT-INFO.TXT file. This file contains a description of the project, a name and email address of a person to contact regarding the project, a note of what version of Contiki the project has been tested with, as well as a link to a web page or paper with further information. See an example here.

Who can become a developer in the Contiki projects community? Anyone that is working on an open source project that is related to Contiki! If you want to have your project included, send a mail to contikiprojects-admin@lists.sourceforge.net with your name, your SourceForge usernams, a brief description of your project, and one file of source code (we want to see that there is some code available).

So feel free to browse around the new Contiki projects community, join the mailing lists, and contact us to make your contribution to the Contiki projects community!