How can I help the Free and Open world? | goFLOSS!

So, you recognise that the Open Source and Free Content world is a great idea, but don’t really know how to give back to it and contribute to its development? Here are just a few ideas to get you started. Know how to code? Get coding. There are virtually an infinite number of projects that you can join. You can even start you own! Some platforms you can join and start a project on are: [1]   Lanchpad, using the Bazaar version control system, mainly related to Ubuntu (more than 31,000 projects) [2] GitHub, using the Git revision control system [3] SourceForge, with 324,000 projects ...  There are many more, and you can make your mind by having a look at this list on Wikipedia. You can also get involved in the Google Summer of Code, with which Google promotes post-secondary developers getting involved into Open Source projects, every year, since 2005 ...   Not a developer? Release different creative Free Content  Free/Open content licenses are not made only for open-source software. You can release you cultural works – be it a book, photos, drawings or music – under a variety of licenses, in order to give others more freedom and promote creativity.  You can choose to release your photos under a Creative Commons license on Flickr for example, but maybe prefer open-source software-based websites likeMediaGoblin or TroveBox. Also, if your photos have a encyclopaedic value, you could upload them to Wikimedia Commons so they can be used on other Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia.  Here are a few examples of digital libraries where you can contribute with your cultural works:  [1] OpenClipart for clip arts, obviously [2] In Libro Veritas for books [3] Jamendo for music ...   The Creative Commons license has a few parameters that you can tweak depending on how you want to be credited and what you want to let other people do with your work.  The Free Art license (called License Art Libre in French – see a definition in English) is a more permissive one. You can compare the different available licenses on the Freedom Defined website ...   Not an artist? Give some time!  If you are not exactly an artist, you can still give a hand at expanding existing community-built websites. Here are some of my favourites: [1] Everybody knows and uses Wikipedia – so why not give some of your time back to the community? There are lots to do, from correcting a typo to creating a new article. You can get started from here. However, if you don’t feel like you can contribute to an encyclopaedia, there are many otherWikimedia projects to spend some free time on, including media library, dictionary, travel guide and news source. [2] MusicBrainz is a music-related database. If you love music or own a few records, why not try and give us a hand? You can start from this guide. [3] OpenStreetMap is a great project that aims at building a open database of geographical data. It is very fun to contribute to, and you can