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If you don't have coding skills, why don't you help foss software by making it more user friendly instead? (lemmy.giftedmc.com)
submitted 11 months ago by haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Not trying to blame anyone here. I‘m just taking an idea I‘ve read and spinning it further:

Intro

A lot of people use free open source software (foss), Linux being one of them. But a lot less actually help make this software. If I ask them why, they always say „I don’t have the coding skills!“.

Maybe its worth pointing out that you don‘t need them. In a lot of cases it’s better to not have any so you can see stuff with a „consumer view“.

In that situation you can file issues on github and similar places. You can write descriptions that non technical people can understand. You can help translate and so on, all depending on your skills.

Other reasons?

I‘d really like to know so the foss community can talk about making it worthwile for non coders to participate.

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[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

An organised, easy way to do this would be great. Kind of like a test audience for FOSS.

Right now, people basically have to appoint and organise themselves as reviewer, which is a big ask.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes indeed! Feel free to dm me if you‘re interested in helping with this. I feel like now that so many people responded positively, we could discuss where to go from here.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Good luck! Organising is hard work.

I can code or do errands, and am willing to help out a bit. I'm not sure how much time exactly I can devote to this, but if you're stuck on something and can't find anyone else to do it, I'm a good call. I might switch back to lemmy.sdf.org depending on how broken it stays, same username though.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 10 months ago

Sounds great. I‘ll let you know if I come up with something.