Best way to contribute to the community?
reddit / BSD

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[deleted] · 2019-09-12 17:17

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[deleted] · 2019-09-12 17:23

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danielgurney · 2019-09-12 18:07

One thing you can do without programming knowledge is writing or
otherwise working on documentation. Error correction, and maybe even
writing install guides would be appreciated by many.

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williewillus · 2019-09-12 18:59

Report any bugs you encounter in detail

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icantthinkofone · 2019-09-12 21:02

[Contributing to FreeBSD](https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-
1/articles/contributing/index.html)

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_arthur_ · 2019-09-12 21:04

This is under appreciated. Good bug reports (detailed, with
reproduction scenarios) make fixing bugs vastly easier.

Or look at existing bugs and try to reproduce them. Simplify the test
case, add logs.

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techsnapp · 2019-09-12 22:56

Not sure about \*the best\*, but this presentation (that I didn't
attend) gave me an idea to contribute to the ports. Even testing and
providing feedback is helpful.

[https://www.openbsd.org/papers/vbsdcon2019-care-and-
feeding.pdf](https://www.openbsd.org/papers/vbsdcon2019-care-and-
feeding.pdf)

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techsnapp · 2019-09-12 22:57

Problem report for OpenBSD:

[https://www.openbsd.org/report.html](https://www.openbsd.org/report.h
tml)

OpenBSD bug mailing list: [https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-
bugs&r=1&w=2](https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&r=1&w=2)

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ShylockSimmonz · 2019-09-25 18:56

I know you can donate money to various projects such ad GhostBSD or
FreeBSD. I'm sure others accept donations as well.

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bsdtux · 2019-10-03 12:59

I am currently studying C + FreeBSD in the hopes to driver
development. Specifically around bluetooth. My goal is to help on both
FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

Until I hit the above I donate monthly to HardenedBSD and I think that
is one of the easiest ways to help contribute with no code. The
otherways as others have pointed out, documentation is a great way to
help out. The more people that gets introduced to the BSD's the more
traction they can get. Bug reports are a great way to help out as
well. Just make sure to give them as much detail and steps if you can
reproduce it consistently.

The last way that I always use to get started is just hop on forums
and help others solve problems. I have found this to be the best way
to learn (did this for linux and now FreeBSD) and help the community,
or if there is not a forum look for a user mailing list