Re: Many hands make light work: what can we do to get 10 minutes of your time in 2016?

Hi Filipe,

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo <..hidden..> wrote:

Hi!!! I am mexican.....i have not experience with ledgersmb, but i want to study it.....maybe in this moment i can not contribuit but after i learn it surely yes......i have some experience with perl and postgres....

Thanks for your reaction! If you're looking for a task for which you have to have very little experience and no running LedgerSMB instance, you could work on the Spanish/Mexican translation. It's not really a small task, but is very easy to split up in smaller bits: for example you could translate only 50 sentences each week. For the translations, check https://www.transifex.com/ledgersmb/. The numbers look frightening (5.000+ strings to translate?) but there are huge numbers of duplicates: each string which occurs in LedgerSMB 1.3, 1.4 and the upcoming 1.5 is counted as 3 strings!

If you would rather help work on the software, that's great too! There are many options there: we want to make a huge step forward in the area of user-experience. So, any feedback you can give with respect to problems setting up the software, or using it, would help support that goal. Also, if you can help resolve some of those issues, that would be even better!

To find information about the community processes, I created a guide on the LedgerSMB project site: http://ledgersmb.org/community-guide/ with a section specifically about developing LedgerSMB (http://ledgersmb.org/community-guide/community-guide/development/) and within that, a section about getting started with coding.

In the GitHub issue tracker, we marked issues which could be done in small amounts of time as "bite-sized" (https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/labels/bite-sized)

If you need help getting up and running: there are usually developers around on the IRC channel #ledgersmb on irc://chat.freenode.net.

Thanks again and let us know how we can help you help us :-)

Regards,

Erik.

El 30/12/2015 08:11, "Erik Huelsmann" <..hidden..> escribió:
Maybe you're a happy or even long-time happy user of LedgerSMB. And maybe you're mostly satisfied with the application. Satisfied enough so you didn't have to interact much with the project. Not even to file bug reports.

If you are that user, then this question is probably for you! As they say "Many hands make light work" and there's lots of work to be done in the project! For those who shudder at the thought of having to write code, fear not! There's a lot more to be done than writing code and other complex "nerdy" stuff.

Examples of smaller tasks:
* Contribute your testimonial to the website
* Write a review on SourceForge
* Add content suggestions to the project website (http://ledgersmb.org)
* Sending your user-experience to the developers so we can improve on it

Examples of bigger tasks
* Translate the project to your language
* Document your workflows and publish them for others to benefit

Of course there are lots of other tasks to be thought of as well.

If every user spent 10 minutes every year giving to the project, our task would get a lot lighter! So, this is a solicitation for feedback: what do we need to do to enable you to spend 10 minutes on LedgerSMB in 2016?

Have a safe year-end and a happy and healthy 2016!

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Bye,

Erik.

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