# Hi I am Aaron and I'm working on Joplin as a University Project

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**Created:** [14 August 2026 02:24 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/hi-i-am-aaron-and-im-working-on-joplin-as-a-university-project/50639 "2026-08-14T02:24:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![sphynxnz256](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/sphynxnz256/32/30040_2.png) [@sphynxnz256](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/sphynxnz256)\
**Post date:** [14 August 2026 02:24 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/hi-i-am-aaron-and-im-working-on-joplin-as-a-university-project/50639/1 "2026-08-14T02:24:09Z")

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Hi, as I said in the title, my name is Aaron and I am a Masters student. I am doing a paper where I am required to work on an Open Source project and my team has chosen Joplin to work on. I was sad to see that PRs from new contributors is currently closed but I thought i would drop in and say hi, anyways. We still plan to work on fixing bugs for the academic side of things on a fork of Joplin. If you are interested, we would still love to contribute our work.

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**Author:** ![arnest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@arnest](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/arnest)\
**Post date:** [14 August 2026 09:07 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/hi-i-am-aaron-and-im-working-on-joplin-as-a-university-project/50639/2 "2026-08-14T09:07:44Z")

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Hi Aaron, thanks to you and your team to choose Joplin for your project!

FYI: Laurent explained [here](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/pull-requests-from-new-contributors-are-temporarily-paused/50133/7) why PRs are closed.

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**Author:** ![sphynxnz256](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/sphynxnz256/32/30040_2.png) [@sphynxnz256](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/sphynxnz256)\
**Post date:** [16 August 2026 06:36 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/hi-i-am-aaron-and-im-working-on-joplin-as-a-university-project/50639/3 "2026-08-16T06:36:11Z")

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Ah. Fair enough. We actually suspected this was the likely reasons for the PRs being closed. Well we will keep working on a self contained fork of the repo for our assignment anyways. We should still learn heeps even if we can't make pull requests to the actual Joplin repo