At http://gratipay.com/about, they have a definition:
“Open work” means that your company or organization makes it easy for any individual to do your work for you without asking you first, and as a result to share in any revenue you generate.
Do work first, ask permission later. Fun, isn't it? If you are opening a new issue or submitting a pull request, go for it! Don't be afraid that it's a dumb idea or a duplicate of another issue or an unwanted change or whatever. Maybe it is! We're still glad to have you! :^)
We're always looking for ways to make Backstroke better. Here's a few:
- Follow along on GitHub. Looks like you're in the right place already!
- Diagnose a bug by creating an issue
- Suggest an improvement by creating an issue
- Close resolved issues (here's the big list)
- Fix a bug/resolve an issue
- Write a test (or a few)
- Add a comment to the code
- Create an example
- Donate on Gratipay. Servers cost money, and anything dontated will be used to keep Backstroke running. https://gratipay.com/Backstroke/
- First, install biome: http://github.com/1egoman/biome
- Clone the repo from Github onto a local machine.
- Open up two terminals, both
cded into Backstroke's root. - In both terminals, run
biome. Biome manages environment variables and this command allows you to enter the value of each variable Backstroke requires. - After entering in the required pieces of information, run
biome usein both terminals. - Lastly, in one terminal, run
npm start. In the other terminal, rungulp. - By default, Backstroke listens on port
8000. Unless you changed that in biome, open a web browser tohttp://localhost:8000. - Backstroke's running! 🎉
Hi, I'm Ryan. Want to get ahold of me? Check out my website.