• bleistift2@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    You don’t need to code to help FOSS! Things a non-coder can do:

    • Report bugs.
    • Find vague bug reports and try to reproduce the issue in as few steps as possible.
    • Update the documentation such as user manuals or help screens.
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      9 months ago

      Translating can also be a huge help and often times there are very intuitive web interfaces for this

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        9 months ago

        Weblate is great, you can translate strings of text during 5 minute breaks

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        9 months ago

        Hey, can you link a couple of these projects with web interface translation methods, or something similar and convenient? Having used a bunch of open software through centralized platforms or local files, I mostly encounter either inline, manual file change as translation option or adjacent strings files, but sadly no visualization or even context of where a line to be translated is used, etc.

        Asking because I’m not really one to go through personal connections to devs or taking active parts in community discords to submit translations in text file formats. I’d like to see these other ones with semi-anonymously submitting translations for my select languages, and a couple examples for for convenience would help a lot for me to seek or ask for such things in the future.

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      So I’m what one might call a basic user. Mainly browser based tasks. I can use the terminal, but I don’t have really much of anything memorized. Imagine giving a desktop running Fedora to your great aunt, not that one, the other one, who’s constantly smoking and sexually harasses the busboys when they come to clean away the ashtrays. That one. That’s my level of Linux proficiency.

      Are any of these things I might be able to do? I would genuinely love to help, but I use FOSS for philosophical reasons, not because I understand the techy stuff. If it’s doable at my level (or an achievable level), I’m eager.