There are many ways you can contribute to Tails. No effort is too small and whatever you bring to this community will be appreciated. So read on to find out how you can make a difference in Tails.

Ways to contribute

Share your experience

Every user can help others or provide developers with useful information.

Donate

Donating speeds up the development of Tails.

Contribute your language skills

Writer

Good writers can make Tails accessible to more people.

Translator

Translators can allow more people around the world to use Tails.

Speaker

Speakers can advocate Tails to all kinds of public.

Contribute your computer skills

Developer or maintainer

Software people with very diverse skills can improve Tails.

System administrator

System administrators can contribute to the infrastructure behind Tails.

Designer

Designers can make Tails easier to use and more appealing.

This section is only in English, because there is currently no way to contribute to Tails if you do not understand English.

Reference documents

Tools for contributors

Release cycle

Relationship with upstream and derivatives

Collective process

Getting credits

We're ok with people getting credits for whatever contribution they did to Tails. Sometimes this is publicly available (for example: in issues, git history, etc.), in which case this is enough for us.

In some cases such info might not be publicly visible (for example: facilitation work done for meetings or data that was deleted for some reason). In this case, if the contributor so wish, we're ok with adding explicit public credit somewhere they can link to. If that's your case, please contact us.

Contact us

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