How to Contribute

Did you know that according to the popular 1% rule, only 1% of the users of an internet community add content, while the other 99% of the users only consume content? However there is plenty ways to contribute and to help your favorite project to flourish, even without writing code. As follows are some examples on ways to contribute.

Reporting issues

Reporting issues is a great way to contribute (if done correctly). The software projects are using bug trackers to keep track of bugs and to link patches or changes with these bug reports.

See the article where to report bugs to find out where you can report bugs.

Contributing code

By contributing code, for example to the following projects (alphabetical order):

• KDE: see Get Involved and Help:Contribute
• Plasma Mobile: https://plasma-mobile.org/get-source/ (see the "Contributing" section)

Donating to community projects and developers

Many community projects and developers are working on the software on their free time. Donating to community projects and developers is a great way to support these projects and developers developing the software for the devices. The following list is an exemplary selection to which projects and developers can be donated to (in alphabetical order):

Community projects

• Armbian: https://www.armbian.com/donate/
• KDE: https://kde.org/community/donations/
• LibreELEC: https://libreelec.tv/sponsor/
• Manjaro ARM: Liberapay, Patreon
• Mobian: Liberapay
• postmarketOS: https://postmarketos.org/donate/
• UBports: https://ubports.com/donate

Developers

• Danct12: Ko-fi, Liberapay, Patreon
• megi: https://xnux.eu/contribute.html#toc-donations

Other ways to contribute

Other ways to contribute to the projects might include:

• Translations and localization
• Designs and creative work
• Ideas
• Supplying hardware

and many more!

By being a positive member of the community

By being a positive member of the community you can help answering common questions and help people find the correct places for their inquiries.