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Whenever I can. Currently I‘m a bit short on change so I just contribute work. Did some translations, filed bugs, raised awareness and helped others use open source software. I also try to learn to code good enough to fix things in projects but I‘m not there yet.
code: null, nada, nothing. dunno how issues: maybe 30 in 9 years using gnu/linux money: 1% of my income for 5 years now, to whatever project i find cool, mostly smaller ones tho
I donate ~30$ a month divided over a few projects but I want to donate more once I can and also to bigger things that would donate for me to many projects and not just the ones that I think of (please give suggestions to such projects or foundations!)
I think thats called taxes!
There should be more government funding for floss. Both by prioritizing floss projects to use and direct funding to projects that arent useful to govts.
True, but until then
- I have commits accepted to major projects you have heard of. Mainly because I have no patience for a poorly worded README.
- I co-maintain a couple of mildly popular things you almost certainly haven’t even heard of.
- I solely maintain a half dozen utilities that are only used by myself and some brave souls who randomly found them on GitHub.
TL;DR: I am an open source hipster, because “you probably haven’t heard of” my work, but I think it’s pretty keen.
Since for the most part i still suck at programming; i help translating programs in my main language since i needed to learn english for my job regardless.
Good on ya
I’ve done a few documentation contributions for some projects. Turns out that technical writers and editors are appreciated in certain places.
Its also horrible lacking in most projects (cough Lemmy)
Sadly, I’ve contributed docs to some projects only to have the devs delete it. They profited off of their hosting solution, so the wanted it to be unclear how to self host it
Unfortunately never. I’m no Linux programmer and I have no idea how to use that space-shuttle-cockpit-shaped menu for crowd translation
Hey mate. I started translating for programs on Weblate. I had never done anything like that before.
Just make an account on the weblate, choose the language you want to translate in and go from there.
I had 2 weeks off so translated a lot of software.
If I can figure it out then so can you and anyone.
Cheers
Monthly donations and code once in a while when I run into a bug or require a feature and have time.
Semi-regularly.
I fairly often send patches for small bug fixes and features. I also maintain a few packages in nixpkgs. I also forked an abandoned project to provide some fixes and updates, so I maintain that now.
I also try to give a donation to an open-source project that I use every couple of months.
I also have a bunch of my own projects that I released as open source, but I don’t think that is really what the question is asking.
I try to contribute as much info as I can to Open Street Map on my walks.
Same I’m mapping out my community and adding missing locations
I’ve been loving it. Weirdly scratches the same itch Pokémon Go did for a while, plus it’s something actually useful.
Now you’ve got the idea of making a game around filling out open street map info. I’ll add it too the list of “cool programs I don’t have nearly enough time to make” 😔
Is there an app that makes this easier to do? I want to contribute but I don’t see a setting or option in osmand
!openstreetmap@lemmy.ml has couple of post about apps
I use street complete, every door, and vespucci depending on what I want to map
Ah ok, thanks!
StreetComplete is the one I use, although there’s a handful. It’s on both the play store and Fdroid
Awesome, thank you!
Have you heard of StreetComplete on Android?
I like to think that using FOSS daily, singing its praises to everyone and filing out the occasional bug report counts.
No it doesnt XD
Going to time and effort to help improve something = contributing
Absolutely love others testing my code for me because they find things I would’ve never run into myself
It does. I wish more people recognized that bug reports are contributions.
Probably only 1% of users file bug reports. That means for every 100 times a bug is found by a user, 99 of them won’t bother reporting it. Devs can’t fix a bug they dont know about…
I think it depends on the project. Some maintainers really only want extremely comprehensive bug reports that realistically only another dev could produce. All kinds of logs, sometimes requiring special packages installed to produce them.
Which makes sense because someone just saying “it crashes sometimes” doesnt provide much to go on.
As much as I can. I can’t code at all and don’t work in IT, but at least I try to help newcomers as much as I can, publish my work as OS license, try to heat up as much traffic as I can on Lemmy (especially for non-tech stuff) and report bugs whenever I find them.
I can’t do much more :(Every year, around Christmas I donate to a project that I use a lot. Also some projects more than once (wikipedia, Signal)
Not often but I have a moment where I do. Last year I contributed a plugin for MusicBrainz Picard which allows you to submit your genre tags to MusicBrainz. I want to give it a proper good update in the future but I’m so focused on other things right now.
My main hobby is designing and programming embedded devices, and anything I create gets slapped up on my github in case anyone else can use it. Schematics, code, whatever.
I have a side hustle of selling the PCBs I make, but I have absolutely no problems with someone making a clone of my designs. It’s not like they’re super advanced tech. Anyone can figure out what I’ve figured out.
