OSF projects are community developed so developers are in charge of research and development of suggested project ideas and bug fixes, adding new features, making OSF technologies leaner, faster, and an easy yet rich user experience and making OSF development easier for others. The developer community as well as proper coordination, delegation, leadership, and conduct are central to the success of OSF projects. Effective coordination of volunteers is a key role at OSF so that all combined efforts are efficiently utilized. Contributors are immortalized on the Wall of Fame. To join the OSF developer community, please complete and submit an OSF Contributor Agreement and submit an application.

How To Get In Touch With OSF Developers

You can find many OSF developers on IRC. You can talk with them in real time by logging on to OSF's chat server, irc.opensoftwarefoundry.org with an IRC client.

Build Projects

Get the source code here, then Build It with various tools available.

Tools

Documentation & Books

For Testers

Our projects are what they are because of the help of people just like you who contribute to them and use them day to day, reporting bugs and helping us improve quality. To get involved, read about how you can help us test, its as simple as downloading, installing, using as usual, and providing feedback on performance and errors.

Nightly Builds

Nightly builds are for testing only and they may or may not work. They can be used to verify that a bug you may be tracking has been fixed. Codes are written and made available immediately so everyone can be a tester in the bug reporting process. You may or may not find bugs, and if you do, please report them immediately so we can fix them quickly. Nightly builds may be unstable and unpredictable so if you're unwilling to put up with problems you may not download and use them. To download, go to the Projects page and click on desired project.