Contributing
If you have an uncensored internet connection, you can make a difference simply by running Lantern and sharing it with those without one. Every additional user sharing her connection makes the Lantern network work that much better, and that much harder to block for censors.
Whether or not you have an uncensored internet connection, you can also help by inviting people you trust to join the Lantern network. Lantern relies on a large network of users who trust one another to share internet connections, so the more trusted connections in the network, the better Lantern will work.
There are also many other ways to contribute to Lantern:
The Lantern community should be as open and collaborative as possible. If you have any questions, answers, or feedback that could be useful for the general community, please post in the Lantern users forum.
Any sensitive communication can be sent to the Lantern developers securely through the contact form in Lantern itself.
You can also often find members of the Lantern team in the #lantern chat room on irc.freenode.net. An easy way to join is to go to http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=lantern and complete the form to connect.
This collaboratively-maintained wiki documentation is a work in progress. If you see an area that needs more work and you would like to pitch in, we welcome your help. Just use the "New Page" or "Edit Page" buttons near the top of any wiki page.
If you are a fluent speaker of another language and would like to help translate Lantern's web site, documentation, or the application itself, we would welcome your participation.
We have a mailing list for coordinating localization ("l10n") / internationalization ("i18n") of Lantern at https://groups.google.com/group/lantern-i18n. If you might like to get involved, please feel free to introduce yourself on this list.
If you would like to help translate the documentation in this wiki, please send us a note asking to be added to our GitHub Translators team. Once you're added, simply click "Edit Page" at the top of any page. In the edit form that you're taken to, copy the content in English, add a new section below for the language you'd like to translate into, paste the English under that section, and then translate it in place into the new language.
For getlantern.org and Lantern itself, we use transifex.com to manage the translation process. To help with translating these, please create an account and send a request to join a translation team on our project page: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/lantern/.
Lantern's official English-language public user forum is hosted at https://groups.google.com/group/lantern-users-en. Some official user forums for other languages have been set up and linked off there, but may lack moderators fluent in those languages. If you would like to become a moderator for one of these forums or to start an official user forum in a new language, please send us a note on the lantern-i18n mailing list.
If you are familiar with open source development processes and would like to submit an issue or a patch, that's awesome. Please see our CONTRIBUTING file for relevant information and then go right ahead. Community contributors who get really involved will be welcomed as core developers.
You can also sign up to help us triage issues on CodeTriage: http://www.codetriage.com/getlantern/lantern
Besides running Lantern on your own computer to share an uncensored internet connection, you can also pledge a one-time or monthly donation to sponsor a Lantern cloud proxy, which provides an additional high-capacity internet connection to the network 24 hours a day, even while your computer is off or disconnected.
Alternatively, if there is some feature or bugfix you'd like to see in the next version of Lantern, you can sponsor its development.
Please contact the Lantern developers about either of these options if you would like to inquire further.
You can also just make a 1-click microdonation to the cause in general using Flattr or GitTip:
Thank you for your interest in contributing to Lantern. A vibrant and active community is vital to our existence.