# Hi OpenEMS Community! Welcome & Introduction

**URL:** <https://community.openems.io/t/hi-openems-community-welcome-introduction/10979>\
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**Created:** [September 13, 2026, 4:41am UTC](https://community.openems.io/t/hi-openems-community-welcome-introduction/10979 "2026-09-13T04:41:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![siddhiphal](https://community.openems.io/user_avatar/community.openems.io/siddhiphal/32/2700_2.png) [@siddhiphal](https://community.openems.io/u/siddhiphal)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2026, 4:41am UTC](https://community.openems.io/t/hi-openems-community-welcome-introduction/10979/1 "2026-09-13T04:41:38Z")

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Hi OpenEMS Community! 👋

I’m Siddhi, M.Sc. Project Management student at GISMA University, Berlin.

Background: 2.75 years managing operations at scale ($1M+ programs), currently researching AI-driven battery storage optimization and grid coordination systems. EU citizen based in Berlin.

I’m joining OpenEMS as a community coordinator to help scale the contributor experience. I can help with:

✓ Discussion organization & templates  
✓ Bug report triage system  
✓ Contributor onboarding guide  
✓ Community workflow optimization  
✓ Forum structure & navigation

Goal: Reduce friction for new contributors, organize discussions, help route technical questions efficiently.

Excited to contribute to infrastructure that powers the energy transition!

How can I help? 🌍⚡

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**Author:** ![sjjh](https://community.openems.io/user_avatar/community.openems.io/sjjh/32/2296_2.png) [@sjjh](https://community.openems.io/u/sjjh)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2026, 11:20am UTC](https://community.openems.io/t/hi-openems-community-welcome-introduction/10979/2 "2026-09-13T11:20:55Z")

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Hi @siddhiphal, great to have you on board!  
Looking forward to your support and contribution to this community. I’m just another (end) user, making small documentation contributions once in a while and trying to get our system up and running (which involves getting additional components added).

> [@siddhiphal](#):
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> How can I help? 🌍⚡

Personally I would suggest looking at following aspects (in no particular order), but there are probably more experienced people than me around: 🙂

- “[eat your own dog food](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food)”, imagine being e.g., a interested house owner. Set up OpenEMS yourself for the first time. Maye your first contribution to the repository. What did you struggle with? How can you support to ease it?
- change the setting to allow registered users (of a certain _trust level_) to [open up new topics without manual approval by a third party](https://community.openems.io/t/cannot-post-in-the-forum/10817)
- create a [Wikipedia article](https://community.openems.io/t/openems-in-wikipedia/5874) (needing some [sources](https://community.openems.io/t/papers-press-list-about-openems/10747)) for OpenEMS
- create a possibility (e.g., merge week?) for the core devs to bring [open pull requests](https://github.com/OpenEMS/openems/pulls) down to a small one digit number
  - set-up a process so that open pull requests stay a one digit number

- triage [open issues/bugs](https://github.com/OpenEMS/openems/issues), bring the number down, exclude relevant issues from the stall-bot, prioritize relevant issues, feed them into the developer pipeline (not sure how close collaboration with Fenecon is in this regard)
  - ensure, that new bug reports have a good quality, such that devs can easily work on them

- [change procedure of back-porting Fenecon changes to upstream](https://community.openems.io/t/request-about-fems-backports/10708)