The "shriveling_world" project aims at producing images of the global geographical time-space, using the third dimension, as in time-space relief maps. The word "shriveling" was introduced by Waldo Tobler in his comments of Mathis-L'Hostis time-space relief image, in order to describe the complex contraction process suggested by the model.
I think, in order to prepare for opening this code, that this project should provide some files to provide informations to newcomers :
There is more information provided on the opensource.guide/how-to-contribute page.
To help to choose a the license, there are several ressources:
There is also a template for the CONTRIBUTING.md file: