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Contributing to FOSS as a Sysadmin (infosec.pub)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am currently learning to be a sysadmin and I have no software development skills. I love FOSS very much and want to contribute to several projects, including non-networked ones.

How can I do this with my skillset? I have a very small (16GB RAM) server that I could offer to these projects as a build server or web host. IDK what else I could do.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

As a 'last resort' if you don't find any technical tasks in the projects you'd like to contribute to, there's also plenty of other ways to help:

Provide new translations into foreign languages
Create detailed bug reports
Do in-depth tests of new beta versions or nightly builds
Provide a download mirror for the software or seed it via torrent
Donate money to the core maintainers
Improve the documentation
Create (video) tutorials to improve the start for other users and make the software known to a broader audience
Register in forums and help other users with their issues

Or simply ask the maintainers how you might contribute in a meaningful way. I'm sure they'll appreciate your offer!