Get Involved
Users
- subscribe to the mailing list or forums or join our IRC channel and contribute to the user community by answering requests and take part in discussions
- Report bugs, improve or validate bug reports on the github issue tracker
- Improve the documentation (it's a wiki)
Web developers
- Improve the website - it's a github repository
Programmers
- Fix bugs - good ones to get started are tagged Good First Issue
- Write (better) tests
- Implement new features
- Refactor or clean up code
Donations
- We accept sponsorships as well as individual donations
- For sponsorship opportunities, please contact info@openscad.org
- For donations, we have an Open Collective account
- It's also possible to place bounties on individual issues using BountySource
Forum / Mailing List
Forum (provided by Nabble)- Mailing list info
- Mailing list archive
Note: As of 2021-06-21 the forum and mailing list are not connected anymore. Please hold on posting there for now.
You can use the mailing list directly via email discuss@lists.openscad.org or use the web interface
linked above as "Mailing list archive".
Posting via the web interface of the mailing list may require creating a new login via https://lists.openscad.org/register using the same email address that was used for the subscription before.
Chat / IRC Channel
- Join via the libera.chat web chat (KiwiIRC)
- Connect with an IRC client to #openscad on irc.libera.chat +6697 (TLS)
- The chat room is also available via Matrix as #openscad:libera.chat
- Additional documentation on how to connect can be found at https://libera.chat/guides
Social Media