Hi folks, as anticipated in the post title, I was wondering which open-source project to support as a user that can navigate the Linux environment but still does not have solid programming nor sysadmin skills. I probably could help with localization as I am native in Italian or I could test software, simulating a “typical user” interaction with it. What do you think? Is there a specific open-source project in need of help?
Maybe you can also find open source communities in your area. After some digging, I was surprised how many groups there are in my area and they are always happy to get additional hands to organize stuff or run errands etc.
I know KDE has a page looking for contributors, including translators, I don’t know how much they need more Italian translators though.
There are websites like https://www.firsttimersonly.com/ that will help you in getting started
Codeberg recently held a translation event where projects could sign up, if they wanted help. You can still look at their resources here, or I guess, you can just pick out a project and start translating over here: https://translate.codeberg.org/
Bug reporting is really helpful for smaller projects. My personal policy is to check if a big has already been reported. If it hasn’t, go to the project forum and ask if I’m doing something wrong. If it turns out there’s an actual issue, I report it as a bug. You can go straight to reporting it after step one if you want but I usually just make sure.
