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So you want to help? Great! You don't have to be an Eclipse guru or code monkey to help. There are many ways to participate in the Eclipse community.

Donate

• Individuals: Make a donation and become a Friend of Eclipse
• Companies: Become a member!

Promote Eclipse Technologies

• Eclipse on Campus/teach with Eclipse
• If you or your company is looking for a framework then give Eclipse a try. There are more than 100 projects.
• Let other people know that your application is Built on Eclipse or Eclipse Ready
• Write about Eclipse
• Follow @EclipseFdn and the Eclipse community on Twitter

Report Bugs and Enhancements

• Eclipse projects are actively developed. Most projects have nightly builds and stable weekly integration builds. To help out, download these builds before the releases and report bugs.
• Report Enhancements: Tell us your needs and ideas
• Vote for bugs

Share Your Knowledge

• Help other users on the forums or on IRC
• Share your Eclipse article, blog or video presentation
• Write Documentation
• Localization: Help translate Eclipse into other languages

Fix Bugs or Implement Enhancements

• Is there some bug that really bothers you? Instead of just reporting it, fix it. And there are many bugs marked with helpwanted.

To learn how the bug-fixing process works, check out the bug reporting FAQ:

To learn about the lifecycle of bugzilla entries, check out the development process

• Google Summer of Code: Participate and get paid for coding!

More

See bug 280730 and Discussion. Other Get(ting) Involved/Contribute sites: Mozilla, Gimp, NetBeans, IntelliJ, OpenOffice, Ubuntu, KDE, GNOME, Fedora