Get Involved Replacement Test
Open Source Ecology is a diverse international community of contributors. Anyone can contribute to OSE: the project involves a wide range of activities.
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What do you want to do?
Donate
Developing the Global Village Construction Set takes money! We have to pay for (minimal) staff, materials, and more. You can make a one time donation or become a True Fan with monthly donations that keep us going. TODO correct link? link 1-time
We also depend on foundations to fund development. If you are from a foundation that we might be a good fit for, please get in touch. TODO link
Volunteer on Factor e Farm
At Factor e Farm, you can help with any of the following activities, including some that you can't easily do remotely. Many Dedicated Project Visitors, or DPVs, come out for a month to help design or build one of the Global Village Construction Set machines.
Learn more about Dedicated Project Visits
Design Hardware
The GVCS requires mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and other types of physical design and development.
TODO link to page which talks about how to get involved in hardware design: design sprint, the wiki including development boards.
Code
There are many coding tasks up for grabs in OSE, both small and large. You don't have to be an expert to start contributing code.
TODO link to page which talks about how to get involved in coding: design sprints, the wiki, github for some machines, development board if nothing in github.
Write
Have a good command of the English language? OSE is always looking for writers, whether it is to create guides for our machines, write or organize content for the websites, or just to blog (and microblog!) about the great stuff that is always happening in OSE.
TODO link to page (Get started with writing documentation) which talks about how to get involved in writing: documentation design sprints, the wiki, development board
Test
Making high quality machines requires lots of testing. The mechanical designs, software, website, documentation, and finished machines all need to be reviewed or tested. Reporting errors or possible improvements is a valuable way to help with the project and is a great way to start out. If you're especially ambitious, you can try building one of the machines for yourself!
TODO Get started- link to page that maybe suggests looking through the docs for an actively developed machine, and reporting problems to github or fixing them on the spot.
Translate
OSE is proud to be available in many different languages, and this is a key part of our mission to make this technology available to as many people as possible. If you have a good command of English and another language, you can help enable OSE's documentation and websites can be used by people from all over the world.
TODO link to page (Get started with translating OSE)
This page is based on the excellent http://www.gnome.org/get-involved/
