Get Involved Replacement Test
Open Source Ecology is a diverse international community of contributors. Anyone can contribute to OSE: the project involves a wide range of activities.
What do you want to do?
Donate
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Volunteer on Factor e Farm
At Factor e Farm, you can help with any of the following activities, including some that you can't easily do remotely. Many Dedicated Project Visitors, or DPVs, come out for about a month to help design or build one of the Global Village Construction Set machines.
TODO link
Design Hardware
The GVCS requires mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and other types of physical design and development. TODO more
Code
There are many coding tasks up for grabs in OSE, both small and large. You don't have to be an expert to start contributing code.
TODO Install the latest code and find tasks
Write
Have a good command of the English language? OSE is always looking for writers, whether it is to create guides for our machines, write or organize content for the websites, or just to blog (and microblog!) about the great stuff that is always happening in OSE.
TODO Get started with writing documentation
Test
Making high quality machines requires lots of testing. The mechanical designs, software/firmwares, website, documentation, and finished machines all need to be reviewed or tested. Reporting errors or possible improvements is a valuable way to help with the project and is a great way to start out. If you're especially ambitious, you can try building one of the machines for yourself using our documentation.
TODO Get started
Translate
OSE is proud to be available in many different languages, and this is a key part of our mission to make this technology available to as many people as possible. If you have a good command of English and another language, you can help enable OSE's documentation and websites can be used by people from all over the world.
TODO Get started with translating OSE
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