FishBox is a code-sharing and collaboration site for Northwest Fisheries Science Center scientists and associates. A few of the projects are large software packages but most of the code are small routines for doing the kind of calculations that applied fisheries biologists need to do. The NWFSC has strong population dynamics and analysis groups, population genetics groups, and GIS groups. Thus FishBox is strong in the types of code that these groups use.
Yes, if the person uploading it has specified that it can be publically shared. When you click on a project it will tell you whether you can download and view the code. If the project is private, you can contact the developer directly. All public code is shared under the GPL license for open-source code. Basically you can use it and adapt it with attribution and you can't use it for-profit uses.
Yes, if you are a NWFSC scientist. If not, then no. You'd need to establish your own GreenBox at your own institution. Go to iugo-cafe.org to find out how to do this and contact the GreenBox developers. GreenBoxes are lightweight, easy to install, and run can run on your generic domain server. If you want to test drive GreenBoxes, then go to the GreenBox demo site: www.conserver.iugo-cafe.org.
Register for an account with your official email address. After you've done that go to your FishBox page and start uploading. It is quite self-explanatory once you are there. You can specify how broadly you want to share your projects (you organize your code into projects that are like folders in Windows). You can choose to not share with anyone, share only with collaborators (who you invite), share only within NWFSC, or share publically.
FishBox is for code (any type of code including matlab, R, SAS, C, Excell, Access, whatever). In addition, you can (and should) upload supporting material like user guides. Again you can do this in whatever format works for you (pdf, Word, text, etc). The upload limit is 2MG. Please don't use FishBox as a document sharing site for teams. We can use Sculpin (the file sharing tool that GreenBox is built on) to do that if needed.