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The GNOME Project is a diverse international community which involves hundreds of contributors, many of whom are volunteers. Anyone can contribute to GNOME: the project involves a wide range of activities, not just programming.

So, what do you want to do?

Write

Have a good command of the English language? GNOME is always looking for writers, whether it is to create user and developer guides for our software, write content for the GNOME websites, produce articles for the GNOME Journal, or just to blog (and microblog!) about the great stuff that is always happening in GNOME.

Get started with writing documentation
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Design

Graphics and user interface design are an important part of the GNOME Project. You can help to design user interfaces and in so doing make GNOME software easy, satisfying and efficient to use. You can also assist our designers in the creation of icons, websites, clothing and other merchandise.

Get involved in GNOME Design

Translate

The GNOME Project is proud to be available in many different languages, and this is a key part of our mission to make our software available to as many people as possible. If you have a good command of English and another language, you can participate in one of the many GNOME translation teams, so that GNOME’s software, documentation and websites can be used by people from all over the world.

Get started with translating GNOME

Code

There are many coding tasks up for grabs in GNOME, both small and large. You don’t have to be an expert to start contributing code. GNOME software is written in many different languages, so it is easy to feel right at home, and we have some incredible programmers from whom you can learn.

There are plenty of ways to get started programming for GNOME. The GNOME Love initiative provides advice for newcomers.

Test

Making high quality software requires lots of testing. Reporting errors or possible improvements is a valuable way to help with the project and is a great way to start out. If you like living dangerously, you can also run our latest development code and help to provide feedback on changes as they happen.

The best way to test GNOME’s development code is to use JHBuild, the GNOME build tool.

Administrate

Have system administration skills? The GNOME Project hosts a range of different kinds of development infrastructure, all of which require maintenance and development. The GNOME Sysadmin team is a great place to work and contains a huge amount of expertise.

Start helping with sysadmin tasks

More information

The teams page provides further details on the range of activities involved in the GNOME Project as well as links to information on getting started. The GNOME Love initiative provides information and support for those wanting to become GNOME contributors. GNOME regularly participates in the Google Summer of Code internship program.