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If you are like most computer enthusiast, you have given fact to contributing to one of the many free and open source software projects available on the internet. After all, it behooves you to make sure that the programs that you use continue to be available and to improve.
What a lot of people do not know, however, is how they should go about contributing to such a project. What are the ground rules you need to know in order to contribute to a team of far-flung volunteers working across the internet? Before we go any further, I should mention that you can still contribute to free and open source software projects even if you do not know a thing about programming. For instance, if you ever heard the term “programmer art”, you know that it is something that should be avoided at all cost. In fact, if you see programmer art, chances are, your retinas could be damaged.
Button images, splash screens, icons, skins, themes, technical illustrations; all of these require the skills of someone that knows their way around the sketch book more than they know their way around a code editor. And of course, we cannot forget about people with writing skills. Most free and open source software projects are completely lacking in documentation or if somebody scrolled something, it is a feeble effort at best. If you got the knack of stringing words together into sentences that are actually comprehensible, then please consider writing a tutorial or other sorts of documentation and contribute to your project in that way.
Lots of projects make it especially easy to start contributing to documentation by hosting the documentation on a website that is called a Wiki which means that you can visit the website and begin editing it right away. No fuzz, no must; just dive in and start making contributions.
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