00:00:03you’ve given thought to contributing to
00:00:05one of the many free and open source
00:00:06software projects available on the
00:00:08internet after all it behooves you to
00:00:10make sure that the programs that you use
00:00:12continue to be available and to improve
00:00:14what a lot of people don’t know who
00:00:16however is how they should go about
00:00:18contributing to such a project what are
00:00:20the ground rules you need to know in
00:00:22order to contribute to a team of fire
00:00:24flowing volunteers working across the
00:00:26internet before we go any further I
00:00:28should mention that you can still
00:00:29contribute to free and open source
00:00:31software projects even if you don’t know
00:00:33a thing about programming for instance
00:00:35if you’ve ever heard the term programmer
00:00:37art you know that it’s something that
00:00:39should be avoided at all costs in fact
00:00:41if you see programmer our chances are
00:00:44your retinas could be damaged button
00:00:46images splash screens icons skins themes
00:00:50technical illustrations all of these
00:00:53require the skills of someone that knows
00:00:55their way around a sketchbook more than
00:00:57they know their way around a code editor
00:00:59and of course we can’t forget about
00:01:00people with writing skills most free and
00:01:03open source software projects are
00:01:04completely lacking and documentation or
00:01:06if somebody scrawled something it’s a
00:01:08feeble effort at best if you’ve got the
00:01:10knack of stringing words together into
00:01:12sentences that are actually
00:01:13comprehensible and please consider
00:01:16writing a tutorial or other sorts of
00:01:17documentation and contribute your
00:01:20project in that way lots of projects
00:01:22make it especially easy to start
00:01:23contributing to documentation by hosting
00:01:25their documentation on a website what’s
00:01:28called in what’s called a wiki which
00:01:30means that you can visit the website and
00:01:32begin editing it right away no fuss no
00:01:34muss just dive in and start making
00:01:36contributions
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