Welcome to the MJFF Data Community of Practice (DCoP)! The DCoP is intended to support conversations about how to access, use, and create persistent documentation about existing Parkinson’s disease datasets. Anyone may view information on this forum without an account, but registration is required in order to make posts or interact with users. To do so, please click the ‘Sign Up’ button at the top-right hand corner of this page.
Below are a few suggestions as you get started in the community:
- To get a sense of the conversations taking place in the DCoP, you can view summaries of discussions, recent events, and other communications in the Community Updates category.
- Ask a question or share a resource by clicking the orange “+New Topic” on the homepage. Or respond to someone else’s message by clicking ‘Reply’ at the end of a post or using the
button to show your appreciation or interest. - Introduce yourself by creating a post in the Introduction category. Head over there or to the Contributor Directory to learn about other users and connect.
- Looking for an overview of our community aims and functionality? Take a look at our welcome video.
- If you have questions about how to get started in Discourse, please check out our Discourse Demo Video or the MJFF Discourse Quick Start Guide.
- For an overview of our community policies, guides, and other resources, please see the MJFF DCoP Resource Guide.
- Read the Community Participation Guidelines and FAQs to learn more about how to participate in this community, as well as how to report undesirable behavior.
- For additional questions, please feel free to contact the admins via Discourse, or by emailing gginnan@michaeljfox.org, jgottesman@michaeljfox.org, or researchcommunity@michaeljfox.org.
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