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Contributing to OSS without technical skills (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by Username85920@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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As the title say, how can I contribute to OSS without the an IT background ?

I know I can of course donate and I also know some ask for translation but French is usually well translated on most software I use.

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[–] darklamer@feddit.org 13 points 2 days ago

Documentation is always needed. If you have any aptitude at all for explaining things to people, it's almost certain that you'd be able to help there.

If you don't know where to start, I can recommend starting with making a tutorial for doing whatever it was that you yourself last found difficult to learn how to do.