Get Involved
Welcome! LibreOffice is developed by a friendly community, made up of hundreds of contributors around the world. It’s free and open source software, so anyone can study how it works and add improvements. Join us today and help us to make it even better! Check out the quick tasks below - or scroll further for more ways to help.
Before starting to contribute, it is recommended to schedule an orienting interview with TDF mentor Ilmari Lauhakangas.
Bite-size tasks
Got a spare ten or twenty minutes, and want to give us a hand? Check our these quick tasks:
- Upvote well-written questions on Ask LibreOffice (after getting 5 karma points)
- Browse our Frequently Asked Questions pages, and check they’re up-to-date (or translate them)
- Update or improve our marketing materials and flyers
- Check and confirm new bug reports to help our QA team
Explore further - click a topic that interests you:
Development Documentation Infrastructure
Design Translation Quality assurance Marketing
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Development
Coding – New features – Bugfixes
- Click here to get the code, talk to developers, and start working on Easy Hacks
Documentation
Guidebooks – Online help – FAQs
- See our documentation page on how you can get involved in our documentation work (eg online help, or Calc handbooks)
Infrastructure
Services – Tools – Hardware
LibreOffice’s infrastructure - such as the website - is used by millions of people every year. Join our community and get experience with large-scale infra!
- See our infrastructure page for the tools we use and how to get involved
Design
User interface – User experience - Branding
- Contribute to LibreOffice design with your artwork and user experience expertise
Translations and localization
100+ languages – And more to come
- Click here to learn about our tools and native language communities
Quality assurance
Bugfixing – Triaging – Bibisecting
- Sign up to Bugzilla, our bug-tracking tool
- Install the latest version of LibreOffice
- Start confirming or re-testing bug reports
- Join #libreoffice-qa on Freenode if you need help
Marketing
Spreading the word – Attending events – Creating materials
- Join our mailing list (send a blank message and follow the instructions)
- Introduce yourself (where you’re based and how you’d like to help)
- A member of the team will give you some ideas for things to work on
