As the title say, how can I contribute to OSS without the an IT background ?
I know I can of course donate and I also know some ask for translation but French is usually well translated on most software I use.
money
Are you technically skilled using whatever software you are trying to help? many FOSS projects need help with their documentation.
Not that much. Even for bug reporting, I don’t encounter much bugs when using OSS (KDE and Libre Office mostly) and I will not complain about it :)
You can also promote them in OSS focused forums many people might not know about those softwares and OSS doesn’t have money to spend on ad campaigns.
- Bug reports
- Sharing on forums, private groups, website like AlternativeTo, etc…
- Documentation
- Financial contribution even if small (Open Collective, Liberapay, Bitcoin, PayPal, Ko-Fi, Cryptocurrencies,…)
- Localization / Translation
Helping test!!! We on the Jellyfin for Roku team have been begging peeps to help test code changes and releases before they are published for years. We get oh so little response, so it mostly ends up the two of us test each others changes on our 2 or 3 devices and if it works, it goes out.
We’re begging for testers. I’m sure other projects are as well.
send pull requests using vibe coding :)
ps: don’t.
I tried but no one seems to appreciate my contributions.
You can see all of my ongoing projects here: http://localhost:5000/
FOSS people are so ungrateful!
