How To Contribute to Open Source

if you’re like most computer enthusiasts
you’ve given thought 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 don’t know who
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 fire
flowing 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 don’t know
a thing about programming for instance
if you’ve ever heard the term programmer
art you know that it’s something that
should be avoided at all costs in fact
if you see programmer our 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 a sketchbook more than
they know their way around a code editor
and of course we can’t forget about
people with writing skills most free and
open source software projects are
completely lacking and documentation or
if somebody scrawled something it’s a
feeble effort at best if you’ve got the
knack of stringing words together into
sentences that are actually
comprehensible and please consider
writing a tutorial or other sorts of
documentation and contribute your
project in that way lots of projects
make it especially easy to start
contributing to documentation by hosting
their documentation on a website what’s
called in what’s called a wiki which
means that you can visit the website and
begin editing it right away no fuss no
muss just dive in and start making
contributions