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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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[–] 1hitsong@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Helping test!!! We on the Jellyfin for Roku team have been begging peeps to help test code changes and releases before they are published for years. We get oh so little response, so it mostly ends up the two of us test each others changes on our 2 or 3 devices and if it works, it goes out.

We're begging for testers. I'm sure other projects are as well.