
If you intend to join the G System team, you are very welcome to do so. We are very happy for every contribution made to the project.
In this section you will find some guidelines and information on how to best procede to get involved.
An important aspect to consider is that the G System is fully an open source project, meaning it is completely free to be used by everyone for any purpose without restrictions. So it is a project for everyone, for common good. Whatever you invest enriches all that are related to this project. Likewise everything that other people invest comes to your good - which is basically the whole idea behind open source: you give a tiny bit and you get all the contribution that other people give.
There is also a more general section about contributing at the end of the G System Developers Handbook. In particular, if you don't intend to join the team, but want to support the G System you can donate to the project, thus allowing the team of developers to spend more time on the project.
The first thing to do is to choose what you want to work on. There are really many options for helping the project:
Being an User
Giving Feedback
Source code development, architecture and design
Documentation writing and proofreading
Translating
Artists, graphical as well as musical
Project Coordination
Providing and managing infrastructure
Binary package building and maintaining
Testing, also for various plattforms
Sharing your philosophical insights.
Sharing your scientific insights.
Financial support, donations (also hardware, or books).
Working on something from the TODO list.
Even if you have no suitable abilities or simply no time to spend, then at least you can help us to be able to spend more time on the project by donating money.
After deciding what you want to work on you should sign up for the appropriate mailing lists, which can be found on the G System homepage. Please discuss what you want to do on these mailing lists.
In any case you should read the section on the fundamental technologies that the G System utilizes and get familiar with what you need.