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I'd love to contribute to some free software projects, but I'm not a coder, and doubt I could ever get my coding and debugging skills up to the necessary level,
by ThinkingGuy 8y ago
I'd love to contribute to some free software projects, but I'm not a coder, and doubt I could ever get my coding and debugging skills up to the necessary level, even with intensive study.
I do enjoy contributing to some of my favorite crowdsourcing efforts, though, so I'd spend a lot more time on all of them if I could:
-Contributing to OpenStreetMap (especially when I travel to less well-covered parts of the world)
-Distributed Proofreaders (proofreading scanned books for Project Gutenberg - https://www.pgdp.net/c/ https://www.pgdp.net/c/)
-Support the Debian project by finding some software to package and maintain- https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned.en.html https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned.en.html
- ilovetux 8y agoCode is far from the only way to contribute. Documentation (read good technical writing) is what is missing in most good, lesser known open source projects. Most projects I have seen are almost overly-welcoming of good contributions to their documentation.