what can i do to contribute?

[stuart.reinke]

I want to give something back to the Ubuntu community. The question is what can i do? I'm not a programmer or developer, I don't think I have the time needed to join the bug squad, and I don't know enough to be any help to people in the forums. (I am learning new things every day though)

Any ideas?

[philcamlin]

help people out on the forums and make wallpapers and stuff :P

thats what i do :popcorn:

[aeiah]

if you are relativley fluent in another language, then translation is usually very valuable. other than that, helping people on here or donating to needy projects is probably the way to go

[philcamlin]

translating would be good :D

[earthpigg]

-report bugs
-help people out on the forums --> no matter how novice you are, someone is more novice than you are.

[stuart.reinke]

Thanks for the sugestions. Translation isn't an option for me. I just completed a fresh install of Hardy. Would it be any help to set up a dual boot with Karmik and look for bugs even though all I can do is report them.

[elianthony]

Thanks for the sugestions. Translation isn't an option for me. I just completed a fresh install of Hardy. Would it be any help to set up a dual boot with Karmik and look for bugs even though all I can do is report them.
Yes indeed, it would be a help to do that.


-report bugs
-help people out on the forums --> no matter how novice you are, someone is more novice than you are.

Very true. I used to never even think about helping anyone else on the forums, because of my own newness to Ubuntu. However, as this post says, there is someone more of a novice than you are, or maybe you have struggled with and solved a problem that someone else hasn't yet. Your experiences at wading through things as you learn will definitely help others.

Oh, and I do try to help out when I can now. ;)

[jonobacon]

There are many ways in which you could contribute - what are you most interested in doing? Technical development? Writing documentation? Advocacy? Marketing?

[ghindo]

If you are able, you could always donate money or equipment to your favorite open source project.

And evangelizing about open source can help too, as long as you're not too fanatical about it ;)

[ddrichardson]

There are many ways in which you could contribute - what are you most interested in doing? Technical development? Writing documentation? Advocacy? Marketing?
Jono pipped me to it - the Documentation Team is open and new users often make the best reviewers, picking up on things more experienced users miss.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam