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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by kde@floss.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

You know how a lot of people say they would love to contribute to Free Software but can't code? No more! Become a KDE Booth Buddy and help out at ScaLE!

This is @druonysus and he needs help managing the KDE booth at Scale 21x.

https://floss.social/@druonysus@mstdn.io/111887967308318720

If you are located in or visiting the Los Angeles area on the days of the event, DM Drew so you can just turn up and help!

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 43 points 9 months ago

You don’t need to code to help FOSS! Things a non-coder can do:

  • Report bugs.
  • Find vague bug reports and try to reproduce the issue in as few steps as possible.
  • Update the documentation such as user manuals or help screens.
[-] Quik@infosec.pub 27 points 9 months ago

Translating can also be a huge help and often times there are very intuitive web interfaces for this

[-] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Hey, can you link a couple of these projects with web interface translation methods, or something similar and convenient? Having used a bunch of open software through centralized platforms or local files, I mostly encounter either inline, manual file change as translation option or adjacent strings files, but sadly no visualization or even context of where a line to be translated is used, etc.

Asking because I'm not really one to go through personal connections to devs or taking active parts in community discords to submit translations in text file formats. I'd like to see these other ones with semi-anonymously submitting translations for my select languages, and a couple examples for for convenience would help a lot for me to seek or ask for such things in the future.

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 9 months ago

Sure thing.

  • The best place to start is on the Get Involved page on out wiki. There you can read about the different ways you can help and contains all the links you may need.

  • The second best place would probably be just jumping right in into the New Contributors Matrix room and having a chat with the people there.

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