[Mizza]

This seems like a great idea, but I think it could be vastly helped by some examples about the format should be, what kind of software is acceptable, etc.

For instance: When I was in school, I wrote a MATLAB program to simulate grid cells in a rat hippocampus. Is that acceptable? I've also written numerous packages for Django - are those? And so on..

[rcthompson]

They have a list of requirements on the about page that basically boils down to "any open source software that you authored which has a research application". There's more detail about the requirements in the reviewer guidelines, which mostly have to do with the development best practices: documentation, test suite, contributor-friendliness, etc. And they also give Fidgit as an example paper on the about page.

For your particular examples, I would say the rat hippocampus simulation almost certainly fits their guidelines, and the Django packages probably don't, unless they're doing some sort of scientific computation or data visualization.