Help make SafeCircle clearer, kinder and more open
SafeCircle is a small project, and every good translation, bug report, test and conversation makes it better. You do not need to write code to help.
Ways to help
Translate
The dashboard is available in 9 languages, and the Android store listing has its own translations. Native speakers can offer a translation or review one. Basque, Galician and Catalan are especially welcome.
Test the beta
Create an account, join the testers group and try the apps. The step-by-step guide explains each part.
Report bugs
Tell us what broke, what confused you, or what felt unsafe. Public bugs go to GitHub issues, and everything else goes to Discord or Contact.
Contribute code
Our public repositories welcome pull requests, starting with documentation and the Orbit browser.
Research
We are looking for people who work on child safety, online harms, language models or education, to help build datasets and evaluations for Horizon and Vigil.
Spread the word and partner
Share SafeCircle with a school, a family, or a community that might need it. If you run an organisation, you can partner with us.
Good first contributions
- Fix a typo or an unclear sentence in the documentation, which is in English and Spanish.
- Look for good first issues in Orbit and in the documentation repository.
- Test a beta build on a second device and report exactly what happened, with the steps to reproduce it.
- Review a translation for clarity, and suggest a more natural wording.
- Write a guide for parents that answers a question you had when you started.
Open repositories
These repositories are public. Our other repositories, including the apps, dashboard and backend, are private for now.
| Repository | What it contains |
|---|---|
| orbit | The Orbit browser, an open-source Firefox fork for families and schools |
| docs | The SafeCircle documentation, in English and Spanish |
| orbit-updates-server | The resource server used for Firefox-based automatic updates |
| orbit-flatpak | Flatpak packages for Orbit |
| orbit-windows-binaries | Signed Windows builds of Orbit stable releases |
| orbit-release-utils | Scripts that make the Orbit release process easier |
| .github | The organisation profile and shared community files |
Research collaboration
Horizon and Vigil have published weights on Hugging Face. Vigil is a research preview, tested so far only on synthetic chats, so independent evaluation is especially valuable. We are interested in shared evaluations, labelled datasets with clear consent and safeguards, and careful reviews of the results.
Never send us real messages, images or other personal data about children, not even as an example. Describe the pattern instead, or use synthetic data. Get in touch through Contact to talk about a collaboration.
Join the community
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Note
How we work together
Be kind, specific and patient. Assume good faith, and disagree about ideas rather than people. Never post personal data about a child in an issue, a chat, a log or a screenshot, including names, photos, school details or messages. If you see it, tell us privately through Contact and do not repeat it.
Start with one small thing
Not sure where to start? Send a short message describing what you are good at, and we will suggest something that fits.
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