# pyOpenSci Software Peer Review Partnerships ```{toctree} :hidden: :caption: Our Partners About Our Partnerships JOSS Pangeo ``` pyOpenSci collaborates with organizations that support the scientific community. ## Software peer review support for scientific communities pyOpenSci is launching a prototype collaboration that supports an existing scientific community. ### What pyOpenSci provides to existing communities In addition to [the core benefits that pyOpenSci peer review provides](/about/benefits), we also provide infrastructure and resources for: * Peer review of tools in the community's ecosystem * Adoption of community specific review standards which will be enforced in addition [to our existing review guidelines](editor-checklist-template) * Maintenance support to maintainers that go through our review. * Support for finding a new package maintainer in case the current one needs to step down. * A catalog of vetted tools and a community landing page. ### Partnership benefits to the broader scientific community The benefit of communities partnering with us is: * We have a broad view across all scientific ecosystems which will help us to better identify overlap of package functions. * We also have broader reach to users of scientific software across the ecosystem. * Finally a consolidated peer review process will help enforce standardization of scientific Python packaging and best practices across the ecosystem.