thanks for asking this question, enjoying reading through the responses and may even get in touch with you OP as you sound similar to me.
Ask HN: How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?
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Re: Ask HN: How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?
#82thanks for asking this question, enjoying reading through the responses and may even get in touch with you OP as you sound similar to me.
Please do.
Re: Ask HN: How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?
#83It's not exactly the same as open source, but the Assembly ( http://assembly.com ) community is a great way to get involved in building products. The community builds businesses together, and everyone shares ownership based on what they've contributed. (also, it's all open sourced under AGPL). You can jump in on products doing all sorts of things from mockups, to docs, to technical writing, etc. And you can always st…
https://assembly.com/secret-society/assets bears a... striking resemblance... to a certain enterprise linux company's existing logo. Do you have any sort of review process in place for this sort of thing (esp. considering these projects are intended to make money)?
Wow - I totally didn't notice that.
If we receive a formal complaint about something the community is doing, we'll usually jump in and try to address it – and in a case like this I'll reach out to that team and let them know nicely that they should be creating their own brand identity.
Thank you for pointing this out.
Re: Ask HN: How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?
#84I work at DuckDuckGo. Our most popular open source project is DuckDuckHack: http://duckduckhack.com/ Developers leverage code, APIs, wikis, etc. to answer searches (across a broad range of topics) in few or zero clicks. What we call, "Instant Answers." The nature of the project only works well with the involvement of non-developers in that the best Instant Answers are made by subject-matter experts across a variety o…
Are you only looking for non-dev contributors or anything at all? I'm looking for projects to start working on in the OS community currently!
Re: Ask HN: How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?
#85I'm currently a software dev student looking to get involved in the OS community, but I'm having trouble getting into a community (or getting the hang of contributing).
I'm willing to do technical stuff or non technical stuff, so does anyone have advice on finding an organization or project to look into?
Re: Ask HN: How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?
#86I work at DuckDuckGo. Our most popular open source project is DuckDuckHack: http://duckduckhack.com/ Developers leverage code, APIs, wikis, etc. to answer searches (across a broad range of topics) in few or zero clicks. What we call, "Instant Answers." The nature of the project only works well with the involvement of non-developers in that the best Instant Answers are made by subject-matter experts across a variety o…
Are you only looking for non-dev contributors or anything at all? I'm looking for projects to start working on in the OS community currently!
Both! We're really in need of some additional folks with commit bits, if you're interested in getting involved on the technical side.
This page will help you find the best place to start but please let me know if I can help: http://duckduckhack.com/
Re: Ask HN: How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?
#87Your skill set sounds very relevant to the work we do. We are not open source, but do operate a free educational tool for teachers. Please email api[a]engrade.com as we would love to discuss.
Re: Ask HN: How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?
#88An open source maintainer here (https://www.fluentd.org) We can always use your help for our docs -> https://docs.fluentd.org and https://github.com/fluent/fluentd-docs
Re: Ask HN: How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you only looking for non-dev contributors or anything at all? I'm looking for projects to start working on in the OS community currently!
Both! We're really in need of some additional folks with commit bits, if you're interested in getting involved on the technical side. This page will help you find the best place to start but please let me know if I can help: http://duckduckhack.com/
Awesome! I'll take a look later tonight. If I have questions how can I get a hold of you? IRC?
Re: Ask HN: How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?
#90As a non-coder, I run some software fuzzing and report the findings to the owners.
With my gear I couldn't spend more than an hour a day setting up tests, but processing the results can take up more time. I've found over 100 bugs in 6 months and it has been fun so far.