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title: Contributing guide
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> You don't have to be a programmer to contribute to this project!
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Firstly, come say hello in our [chat room](/contact/) if you'd like to help out
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:wave: We are happy to have designers, thinkers, hackers, documenters, etc.
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involved in this project! There is a lot of work to do, if you find this
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project interesting, we want to have you working with us.
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We have [a weekly check-in](/comm-org/#kite-flying-hours) for contributors of
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this project to let each other know what we're working on, how much time we've
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spent on it and how to coordinate further work.
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We have a [public bike map](https://pad.autonomic.zone/s/C3uuqfSCk) showing
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what we are aiming to achieve in the near future. That gives a good overview
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of where we're going together.
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From this bike map, we use an [issue
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tracker](https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/organising/issues) where we hold
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discussions about what we want to do. We categorise these issues according to
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the bike map using these
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[milestones](https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/organising/milestones).
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Finally, use this
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[board](https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/organising/projects/8) to keep
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track of what we're working on right now. We collectively review these things
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on a weekly/monthly basis to keep track of our time spent vs. budget available.
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Once you've found something to work on and are introduced, we'll give you an
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account on our [time tracking infrastructure](https://kimai.autonomic.zone)
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where you can log your times. This helps us reduce the burden of financial and
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time keeping admin falling on one person.
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We have received funding via [the
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ECF](https://culturalfoundation.eu/initiatives/culture-of-solidarity-fund) and
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can offer £16 hourly rate for your work. We've written
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[more](/strategy/#compensation-for-contributions) on why we think it is
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important to compensate all contributions for this project.
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## Compensation for contributions
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We think that it is important to focus on making the libre software ecosystem sustainable. This has historically [not been the case](https://www.fordfoundation.org/media/2976/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure.pdf).
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It feels important to contextualise this position. In the words of [LURK](https://lurk.org):
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> Big tech and an abusive misunderstanding of free and open source software practices have led us to believe that software production, server maintenance and on-line services should be free as in gratis. However there is no such things as a free lunch and software does not exist in a vacuum. If we want sustainable alternatives and a diverse cultural sector, these alternatives and the humans behind them, need to be supported.
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And a short excerpt from [Seven Theses On The Fediverse and The Becoming Of FLOSS](https://archive.transmediale.de/content/seven-theses-on-the-fediverse-and-the-becoming-of-floss):
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> Without substantial funding for ongoing development and maintenance, these projects will remain contingent upon the exploitation of the free labor of well-meaning individuals, or subject to the whims of people making time for their FLOSS hobby.
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We want to build a flourishing, inclusive, accessible project and paying people for their work (not just writing source code, but other forms of organising and care work too!) has a role to play in that. We think that making it possible to compensate contributors for working on Co-op Cloud is a way to get involved with self-organising sustainability from the start.
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We haven't worked this all out. We've opened up an [Open Collective account](https://opencollective/coop-cloud) and we're running this as an "invite only mode" approach. **If you want to make a contribution to Co-op Cloud and you'd like to be compensated, please [come and chat to us first](https://docs.coopcloud.tech/contact/).**
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