Born Whole is an open-source project and welcomes contributions from everyone. You don't need to be a developer — there are meaningful ways to help regardless of your background. Find your path below.
Technically Interested
No coding experience required. If you can use a web browser and GitHub, you can make a real difference to the site's content and accuracy.
Add a FAQ entry
The FAQ directly affects how the site ranks in search results. Adding a well-chosen question and answer is one of the highest-impact contributions you can make. Edit faq.go directly on GitHub — no local setup needed.
Add or verify an organization
If you know of an advocacy organization that should be listed, or if an existing organization's details are out of date, edit organizations.go on GitHub.
Submit an event
Know of an upcoming event relevant to the intactivist movement? Add it to events.go on GitHub.
Improve the AI knowledge base
The "Ask the Knowledge Base" feature answers questions using hand-written plain text files in site/kb/ — one file per featured organization. If you know an organization's work well, you can improve their entry by editing the relevant file directly on GitHub. Write in your own words rather than copying text from their site. Accurate, well-written summaries of key facts, arguments, and resources make the AI's answers more useful for parents and advocates.
Report a broken link or error
If you find a broken link, outdated information, or anything that looks wrong, open an issue and describe what you found. No technical knowledge required.
Improve the whitepaper
The technical whitepaper describes the project's architecture and vision. Corrections, clarifications, and additions are welcome.
Open an issue on GitHubWeb & UI Designers
The site's visual design lives entirely in site/css/styles.css and the HTML templates in templates/. No build tools or compiled assets — just CSS and HTML.
Ways to contribute
- Improve mobile responsiveness — the site is functional on small screens but has room for polish
- Improve accessibility (a11y) — aria labels, focus states, colour contrast, keyboard navigation
- Design or improve organization thumbnails and logos in
site/images/ - Improve the organization card layout and information hierarchy
- Improve the resource card grid on the For Parents page
- Refine typography, spacing, and visual consistency across pages
- Design a dark mode variant
- Improve the hero section on the home page
Developers
The project is built with Go, HTML templates, and Cloudflare Pages. If you're comfortable with code, there's plenty to work on — from improving the AI question-answering pipeline and knowledge base search, to adding new features from the technical roadmap.
Full setup instructions, tech stack details, commit conventions, and contribution guidelines are in CONTRIBUTING.md. Open issues are a good place to find something to work on — look for good first issue labels.