Making more clear how to contribute

[LibreAnne]

Hi open source design. I am new to your community. I want to help in small ways but an unsure of best way. I looked at the contributing file but seems not yet done. I know got and github a little but dont know how you suggest developing your site with all the different repos

[simonv3]

Yes! We definitely are looking at fixing that @LibreAnne. What kind of contributions would you like to make?

[bnvk]

Ah. That is a file I started creating and did not finish, apologies 😝 I started writing these command line scripts to make it easier to clone / update the only repos used for the public website. However, those scripts do take into account a user needing (or having already) forked all the repos to their own Github account, which is one of the steps needed for developing the website as I suggest we recommend to new users like @LibreAnne for instance.

[evalica]

Hi @LibreAnne . There are various ways to contribute, depends on what you want to do. You can:

• make PRs for the website or other repos,
• you can give feedback to the various issues we have open,
• you can try to design something from our job board,
• you can just come and chat on IRC,
• you can help us define what this new contributors list should contain :)
• etc.
  We are still trying to figure things out ourselves.

[evalica]

I think this is covered by http://opensourcedesign.net/contribute/. WDYT @simonv3 ?

[simonv3]

Yep, I think so! Though that page can be fleshed out.

A link to that is now also on the front page http://opensourcedesign.net/

[Erioldoesdesign]

I think this is important to note that a contributor didn't know how to get involved but a lot has changed since 2016/2017 so I'm closing :)