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@ -3,7 +3,13 @@ Where to get started to help improve Friendica?
* [Home](help) * [Home](help)
Do you want to help us improve Friendica? Here we have compiled some hints on how to get started and some tasks to help you choose. A project like Friendica is the sum of many different contributions. **Very different skills are required to make good software. Some of them involve coding, others do not.** We are looking for helpers in all areas, whether you write text or code, whether you spread the word to convince people or design new icons. Whether you feel like an expert or like a newbie - join us with your ideas! Do you want to help us improve Friendica?
Here we have compiled some hints on how to get started and some tasks to help you choose.
A project like Friendica is the sum of many different contributions.
**Very different skills are required to make good software.
Some of them involve coding, others do not.**
We are looking for helpers in all areas, whether you write text or code, whether you spread the word to convince people or design new icons.
Whether you feel like an expert or like a newbie - join us with your ideas!
**Contact us** **Contact us**
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**Help other users** **Help other users**
Remember the questions you had when you first tried Friendica? A good place to start can be to help new people find their way around Friendica in the [general support forum](https://helpers.pyxis.uberspace.de/profile/helpers). Welcome them, answer their questions, point them to documentation or ping other helpers directly if you can't help but think you know who can. Remember the questions you had when you first tried Friendica?
A good place to start can be to help new people find their way around Friendica in the [general support forum](https://helpers.pyxis.uberspace.de/profile/helpers).
Welcome them, answer their questions, point them to documentation or ping other helpers directly if you can't help but think you know who can.
**Translations** **Translations**
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**Design** **Design**
Are you good at designing things? If you have seen Friendica you probably have ideas to improve it, haven't you? Are you good at designing things?
If you have seen Friendica you probably have ideas to improve it, haven't you?
* If you would like to work with us on enhancing the user interface, please join the [UX Watchdogs forum](https://fc.oscp.info/profile/ux-watchdogs) * If you would like to work with us on enhancing the user interface, please join the [UX Watchdogs forum](https://fc.oscp.info/profile/ux-watchdogs)
* Make plans for a better Friendica interface design and share them with us. * Make plans for a better Friendica interface design and share them with us.
* Tell us if you are able to realize your ideas or what kind of help you need. We can't promise we have the right skills in the group but we'll try. * Tell us if you are able to realize your ideas or what kind of help you need.
We can't promise we have the right skills in the group but we'll try.
* Choose a thing to start with, e.g. work on the icon set of your favourite theme * Choose a thing to start with, e.g. work on the icon set of your favourite theme
**Programming** **Programming**
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* If a bug looks fixed, ask the bug reporters for feedback to find out if the bug can be closed. * If a bug looks fixed, ask the bug reporters for feedback to find out if the bug can be closed.
* Fix a bug if you can. Please make the pull request against the *develop* branch of the repository. * Fix a bug if you can. Please make the pull request against the *develop* branch of the repository.
* **Web interface:** The thing many people want most is a better interface, preferably a responsive Friendica theme. This is a piece of work! If you want to get involved here: * **Web interface:** The thing many people want most is a better interface, preferably a responsive Friendica theme.
* Look at the first steps that were made (e.g. the clean theme). Ask us to find out whom to talk to about their experiences. This is a piece of work!
If you want to get involved here:
* Look at the first steps that were made (e.g. the clean theme).
Ask us to find out whom to talk to about their experiences.
* Talk to design people if you know any. * Talk to design people if you know any.
* Let us know about your plans [in the dev forum](https://friendika.openmindspace.org/profile/friendicadevelopers) and the [theme developer forum](https://friendica.eu/profile/ftdevs). Do not worry about cross-posting. * Let us know about your plans [in the dev forum](https://friendika.openmindspace.org/profile/friendicadevelopers) and the [theme developer forum](https://friendica.eu/profile/ftdevs).
Do not worry about cross-posting.
* **Client software:** There are free software clients that do somehow work with Friendica but most of them need love and maintenance. Also, they were mostly made for other platforms using the StatusNet API. This means they lack:w * **Client software:** There are free software clients that do somehow work with Friendica but most of them need love and maintenance.
the features that are really specific to Friendica. Popular clients you might want to have a look at are: Also, they were mostly made for other platforms using the StatusNet API.
This means they lack the features that are really specific to Friendica.
Popular clients you might want to have a look at are:
* [Hotot (Linux)](http://hotot.org/) - abandoned * [Hotot (Linux)](http://hotot.org/) - abandoned
* [Friendica for Android](https://github.com/max-weller/friendica-for-android) - abandoned * [Friendica for Android](https://github.com/max-weller/friendica-for-android) - abandoned
* You can find more working client software in [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendica). * You can find more working client software in [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendica).