High-value, simple & easily accessible ways to contribute to FreeBSD

Start conversations, support users and engage in FreeBSD-related discourse

• IRC, FreeBSD Forums or FreeBSD Mailing Lists
• Twitter (#freebsd), StackOverflow
• See also: Community for other channels

• Websites, documentation, README's
• Add FreeBSD install instructions to documentation/README's
• Add FreeBSD to the list of supported operating systems
• Run software tests, test suites, report successes & failures
• Add feature requests to add or improve FreeBSD support, or FreeBSD-specific features (eg: kqueue(2))

• Write a How To article
• Write a blog post describing a new feature, port project or update
• Write about your experience on FreeBSD, including the successes, failures and what needs improving.

Maintain an un-maintained port

• FreeBSD Ports: New Contributor 101 / Cheatsheet

• Report incorrect or outdated content
• Suggest additions, changes
• Create a wiki account, ask a developer to add you to the contributor group
• Join #freebsd-wiki (ircs://chat.freenode.net/freebsd-wiki) on IRC

• Analyse/Triage a Bug/Issue for a port/package you use. Examples:
  • Incorrectly categorized
  • Unclear summaries
  • Incorrectly assigned
  • CC relevant/appropriate people
  • Help issues progress
  • Reproduce issues