# Call for Contributors: Distributions on Manifolds

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/call-for-contributors-distributions-on-manifolds/117820
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**Created:** [August 4, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/call-for-contributors-distributions-on-manifolds/117820 "2024-08-04T18:20:29Z")
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### Author: ![kellertuer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kellertuer/32/220707_2.png) [@kellertuer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kellertuer)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/call-for-contributors-distributions-on-manifolds/117820/1 "2024-08-04T18:20:29Z")

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in [JuliaManifolds](https://juliamanifolds.github.io/juliamanifolds/) we have reached a relatively stable interface for manifolds. One thing I often hear about it Statistics on manifolds – basically to combine distributions and Riemannian manifolds.

We currenlty offer, what I would call a “poor-mans-version” a `rand(M)` that generates a random point on a manifold, but it is not always clear which one.  
For me personally that is enough, I often really just need “some” point on a manifold. I am also not a strong statistician/stochastician. But if someone would like to dive into that I am very happy to help from the manifolds side as well as the existing APIs in our packages.

we have a slightly old) [issue](https://github.com/JuliaManifolds/Manifolds.jl/issues/57) about this by @sethaxen and @mateuszbaran.  
I would also be happy if we could start a bit of distributions for (just) a specific manifold 🙂 Maybe there is someone out there with an interest in that topic.