Community¶

Contact us¶

Mailing list¶

The NEST users mailing list is intended to be a forum for questions on the usage of NEST, the exchange of code and general discussions about NEST. The philosophy is that all users profit by sharing their experience. All NEST core developers are subscribed to this list and will participate in the discussions as far as time allows.

By subscribing to the mailing list you will also get notified of all NEST related events!

Before submitting a question, please take a look at our guidelines for the NEST mailing list.

Submit an issue or pull request on Github¶

You can Report bugs and request features on Github or contribute to the code or documentation. See our Contribute to NEST page for details.

Open video conference¶

Every two weeks, we have an open video conference to discuss current issues and developments in NEST. We welcome users with questions regarding their implementations or issues they want help solving to join. This is an opportunity to have discussions in real time with developers.

Information for dates and how to join can be found on our GitHub wiki

Get help¶

Have a specific question or problem with NEST?¶

Check out the troubleshooting section for common issues.

If your question is not on there, you are welcome to subscribe to our Mailing List and ask.

Get help on the command line interface¶

The helpdesk() command will launch the documentation pages on your browser.

To access the High-level Python API reference material you can use the commands:

# list all functions and attributes
dir(nest)

# Get docstring for function in Python ...
help('nest.FunctionName')

# ... or in IPython
nest.FunctionName?

Model information¶

To get a list of available neuron models, use:
nest.node_models
To get a list of available synapse models, use:
nest.synapse_models
To get details on model equations and parameters, use:
nest.help('model_name')