Get involved - The diaspora* Project
Get involved
The future of the social web starts with you
Community powered
diaspora* belongs to you
What does it all mean?
Free Software is about individuality, transparency, creativity, and destiny. It is about having an idea, and making it reality. diaspora* was founded to fulfill a passion for fun, and to make the internet a better place. Free Software is what enables us to change the world for ourselves, and lets our friends across the web benefit from our exploration.
Free Software communities are amazing things. At diaspora*, we believe that people should be valued for what they do. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an elite coder or have never contributed to a project before. Contributing to diaspora* means that you get to work on hard problems, with a focus on solutions that work for users.
This is why if you contribute something meaningful to diaspora*, we will give you core commit access. We are in this together, and we want to give excited people the chance to make huge changes.
Where you come in
We all make diaspora*. We might not know you just yet, but we’d love to meet you and find how you can fit into the team that’s building the future of the web. We all have the potential to change the world, given the right opportunity.
Contributing to diaspora* comes in all different shapes and sizes. Whether you’re a user helping us find bugs, providing feedback on our mailing lists, or contributing code or design, we need you.
Ways to get involved with diaspora*
Contribute code
Grabbing the source code is simple
Clone the repository and poke around:
git clone git://github.com/diaspora/diaspora.git
Install your development environment
Start contributing code!
We’ve got a large community ready to help you get started. We suggest you check out our
Getting started guide
, talk to us on our
Discourse forum
and come and meet us in the
diaspora* IRC room
View the source on GitHub
Squash bugs
Our project makes use of Code Triage, a volunteer service where users and developers can work together to tackle bugs in our
GitHub Issue Tracker
Squashing small bugs helps everyone, and it can give a newcomer a better working knowledge of how parts of diaspora* works.
Help us clean up our code
Help translate
You can help translate diaspora* into other languages by joining the
Translations Group
Read our
translation instructions
on how to get started.
Provide your voice
Our project is run entirely by community volunteers. We use a tool called Discourse to engage in conversations with our contributors about ideas and proposals.
Join us there
Persuade your friends and family to join diaspora* by organizing your own real-life diaspora*
meetup
in your own community.
Provide support
Help new users feel welcome!
Sign up here
Write user tutorials for the
diaspora* tutorials
section.
Answer users’ questions on our
IRC channel
or answer users’ questions on diaspora* itself by following the
#help
#question
and
#feedback
hashtags.
Contribute to
diaspora*’s wiki
Run a public pod
Now you don’t have to settle for having your data on someone else’s server. Since diaspora* is completely free software, we’re constantly making it easier for individuals to
host their own pods on diaspora*
You can host it wherever you want.
Add your pod to the list of open pods at
Fediverse Observer