User experience (UX) and design What’s in it for me? Improve LibreOffice visually, inside the office Working on a free software project is volunteer suite, in user interaction, and at any place (unpaid) effort, but there are other rewards: where the product, or the community behind it, • It is fun, interesting, and free. minimal size: 100px width is visible in public. Assist with accessibility • You can gain good experience and select an area covering the improvements. http://www.libreoffice.org/ professional kudos, and showcase your marks to export the 100px bitmap get-involved/ux-visual-designers/ expertise. For larger sizes export the page and scale it appropriately.

• It can be a great opportunity to learn and The background consists of a white rectangle with opacity=0. Translation and localization If you want to select it, switch to layer "Background" and use practice new skills. [TAB] until you get the object you want to select.

Localize the LibreOffice user interface and • Working for a free software project can be The trademark symbol is part of a dedicated layer. Turn it help files into your language. Translate a valuable addition to your résumé. visible/invisible depending on your needs. existing user guides into your language. • You can make interesting new friends and Write new materials suitable for your country contacts. or group. http://www.libreoffice.org/ • Some travel and other expenses can be Fantastic Community get-involved/localizers/ paid for attendance at conferences and hackfests. Fun Project Web admin and development • Your involvement in the project can Maintain and develop LibreOffice and indirectly provide you with an income. For Free Office Suite Document Foundation online infrastructure: example, outside the project, you could websites, servers, national language group provide training, service, and support. infrastructure, etc. http://www.libreoffice.org/ • Contributing to the project can give you a get-involved/web-administrators/ greater opportunity to influence its develop- ment in the directions you would like it to Extensions and templates go, and to play a role in that development. Create extensions and templates for • Consistent contributors can apply to LibreOffice. Find, upload, and update existing become members of The Document extensions and templates. Foundation. Members can vote on http://extensions.libreoffice.org/ and candidates and be elected to official http://templates.libreoffice.org/ committees and the Board of Directors.

Donate money The TDF/LibreOffice Community If you do not have time to do work for the project, you can still make a valuable LibreOffice.org Fantastic Community. contribution by donating to help fund our Fun Project. “The free office suite the community community work. http://donate.libreoffice.org/ Free Office Suite. has been dreaming of for 12 years.” Our Product How can I get involved? QA (Quality assurance) LibreOffice is community-driven and Any software project, and especially a large Triage, prioritize, and do in-depth analysis of developed software, a project of the not-for- one like LibreOffice, needs many people: bug reports and feature requests; manual profit organization, The Document Foundation. developers and other important contributors. testing and test reporting; take part in localiza- It is available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Here are some things you can do to help. tion QA. QA requires patience and attention to Windows. We are working on porting it to detail, but it is essential work. We hold QA Android and other platforms. meets, bug hunt marathons and contests. http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/ Developers/Coders/Hackers qa-testers/ LibreOffice is developed by users who believe in the principles of free software and in Work on code for the LibreOffice code base User support sharing their work with the world in a non- and extensions, bug-fixing and submitting Answer questions on the user support mailing restrictive way. patches. list ([email protected]), Ask LibreOffice (http://ask.libreoffice.org/), and the At the core of these principles is the promise LibreOffice is licensed under the LGPLv3 (unless indicated otherwise for any particular LibreOffice IRC channel (irc://chat.freenode. of better-quality, highly-reliable and secure net/libreoffice). Help other users with their software code that gives you greater flexibility file), which gives you key liberties and responsibilities. questions and problems. Patrol the project of use at zero cost. Web resources and fix or report errors. Beyond this, the driving factor behind the The LibreOffice project uses a dual LGPLv3 http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/ (or later) / MPL license for new contributions to community is personal choice and Documentation transparency, which translates practically into allow the license to be upgraded. There is no Work on user guides, other user support wider compatibility, more utility, and no end- requirement to assign your copyright to any- materials, and the built-in LibreOffice help user lock-in to one product. one in order to get your code contributed. All contributions are welcome. All we ask is that system. Contribute by writing, reviewing, you license your code to us jointly under both editing, indexing, screenshot production, licenses. All our source code is hosted in git. research. Help improve written content on Our Community website and wiki pages and translated reports. We hold developer meetings, hackfests, and http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/ The community is the heart of the project, sprints, but most meetings are online, using documenters/ without which we would not have the IRC, Google Hangouts, Skype, and other tools. resources to develop the software. The Marketing passion and drive that every individual brings Primary points of contact and resources: Attend FOSS events as part of an official Doc- to the community results in collaborative http://www.libreoffice.org/developers/ ument Foundation team. Publicize LibreOffice development exceeding expectations and, The #libreoffice-dev channel at irc.freenode.net and The Document Foundation in media, at best of all, you can be part of it in a multitude fairs and other events, etc. Help create content of ways. The Development wiki page, and coordinate activities for special marketing wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development initiatives. Do research, such as marketing and The developers’ mailing list at FreeDesktop, feature research for future versions, usability The central point of contact is through the main lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice research, etc. http://www.libreoffice.org/get- website at www.LibreOffice.org involved/marketers/