Diaspora/Website

Contributing to diaspora* comes in all different shapes and sizes. Whether you’re a user helping us find bugs, providing feedback on our mailing lists, or contributing code or design, we need you.

Ways to get involved with diaspora*

Contribute code

Grabbing the source code is simple

Clone the repository and poke around: %{clone_code}

Install your development environment

Start contributing code!

We’ve got a large community ready to help you get started. We suggest you check out our %{get_started_guide_link}, talk to us on our %{discourse_link} and come and meet us in the %{irc_link}.

View the source on GitHub

Squash bugs

Our project makes use of Code Triage, a volunteer service where users and developers can work together to tackle bugs in our %{github_link}.

Squashing small bugs helps everyone, and it can give a newcomer a better working knowledge of how parts of diaspora* works.

Help us clean up our code

Help translate

You can help translate diaspora* into other languages by joining the %{translations_link}.

Read our %{translation_instructions_link} on how to get started.

Provide your voice

Our project is run entirely by community volunteers. We use a tool called Discourse to engage in conversations with our contributors about ideas and proposals.

Join us there

Persuade your friends and family to join diaspora* by organizing your own real-life diaspora* %{meetup_link} in your own community.