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Become a part of the Diaspora community

Diaspora* is an eclectic community. We have artists, teachers, moms, children, designers, hackers, and activists from all over the world. This is important because if we are going to build an innovative way to communitcate online, we need to think very differently than our predecessors, both Open Source and proprietary.

There are only three requirements to join the Diaspora community.

1. Be excellent to each other.
   We all are here to make the internet a better place to share with people on the web.
2. Have fun.
   The core devs started this in their free time because it sounded entertaining (and hard). If we can't have a good time together, shouldn't you be doing something else?
3. Learn something.
   Diaspora is not a simple endeavor, and our mission is not something we can complete in a day, a year, or maybe even a lifetime. That also means it is a constantly evolving, dynamic project with lots of hard problems, all of which require different types of expertise. Every one of our contributors is an expert in something, even you!

If these sound like you, venture forth fair reader!

DIASPORA* - It is easy to get involved!

No matter what you want to do, no matter how much time you have, you can become a Diaspora contributor.

If you have 5 minutes...

as a user

• Answer a new user's question on the offical help tags on your pod
  (examples: #help, #feature, #question)
• File a bug on GitHub
• Tweet about Diaspora
• Invite a friend
• Edit this wiki
• join the Diaspora Discuss mailing list
• Donate to Diaspora

as a hacker

• file a bug
• confirm or add information to someone else's bug
• join the Diaspora-dev mailing list

If you have 30 minutes...

as a user

• write a blog post about Diaspora
• make some fan art
• come chat with us on IRC
• contribute a translation in your favorite language

as a hacker

• give a code review to a recent commit
• fix a 'quickfix' bug
• come hang out with us on #diaspora-dev
• document some code to get a better idea of how the code works
• add posting to your favorite service to Diaspora*
• backfill tests
• get your development enviroment set up

If you have a couple of hours

as a user

• make a tutorial (written or video)
• confirm bugs
• come up with new feature requests
• Learn to code! :)
  Diaspora is a great way to get your feet wet programming!

as a hacker

• Build a new feature
• Write a paper on Diaspora's federation or authentication protocols
• Have a look at our developer wishlist
• Refactor and improve code

If you have a couple of days

as a user

• throw a Diaspora party
• help organize a meetup

as a hacker

• run your own pod for the community
• give talks about Diaspora

These are just a few ideas, and we love people who want to donate their skills to make our community more amazing.

Places we talk about Diaspora

Diaspora User stuff

• diaspora-discuss mailing list
• #diaspora IRC channel on freenode

Diaspora Development

• Github issues
• diaspora-dev mailing list
• #diaspora-dev IRC channel

Diaspora in your community!

We are an international movement. If you would like to participate or help organize one in your area join us at Meetup

Any questions?

Come talk to us. The best ways to get in touch in realtime is IRC. Tell us what you're interested in working on - code, tutorials, feature ideas, mockups, running a pod, helping with the wiki, or something else - and we can help you figure out how to get going.