Welcome to GNOME

Our community

A very warm welcome to the GNOME project. We want everyone to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. For this, the GNOME community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. To learn more about how you can find support and what is expected from contributors, please have a look at our GNOME Code of Conduct.

GNOME Code of Conduct All participants are expected to follow this Code of Conduct

In GNOME we use Discourse for asynchronous long-form discussions and Matrix chat to hang out together and discuss projects. You can get started in the #newcomers room or directly reach out in a more specific chat room.

GNOME Discourse Our forum for all GNOME related topics.
#newcomers:gnome.org The “GNOME Newcomers” chat can help you get started
#community:gnome.org Explore all the GNOME-related chat rooms in our Matrix space

See also the Get in Touch section of the handbook for important information about our communication platforms.

Where to contribute

Within GNOME there are many areas where you can contribute and a plethora of skills that are appreciated.

Programming

Write code and engineer technical solutions

Design

Design user interfaces, user experience, and visuals

Translation

Translate software and websites into your language

Documentation

Write documentation, help pages, and manuals

Websites

Maintain websites and create content

View all GNOME Teams

Contribute to an app

Below, you can find specific contribution guides for all GNOME apps. If you are not sure where to contribute, consider choosing an app that you use yourself. Try to solve something that is important to you or where you feel an inner motivation.

Internships

You can begin or continue your journey with GNOME with a remote internship including mentoring and a stipend. You can both choose from suggested projects or suggest your own.

Outreachy

Outreachy provides internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical industry where they are living.

Google Summer of Code

GSoC is an online mentoring program focused on introducing new contributors to open source software development.

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