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Volunteer
There are many ways to participate in BOINC.
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Participate in BOINC using Science United. Sign up for science areas, and you'll automatically compute for current and future projects in those areas.
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Or you can download BOINC from the BOINC web site and pick specific projects.
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Read the BOINC User Manual.
Help develop, maintain, and debug BOINC. Various technical skills (C++, PHP, CSS, SQL, WxWidgets) are required for different parts of BOINC; details are here.
Use the boinc_dev email list for discussion, and the Github issue tracking system for specific bugs and feature requests.
Instructions for reporting bugs are here.
Help test new versions of BOINC.
Use the boinc_alpha email list, and the Github issue tracking system. The boinc_alpha list is where new versions (for testing) are announced.
The best way to contribute is by joining the BOINC Alpha Test project. You can also submit bug reports on Github.
Use the boinc_doc Google group.
Review, update, improve, and extend the BOINC documentation. Although both user and project documentation are in Wiki form, they're not publicly editable because of problems with spammers. You can send revisions to a committer.
Many parts of BOINC are translatable: the BOINC Manager and Android GUI, the BOINC web site, the generic part of BOINC project sites, and the project-specific part of some project's web sites. You can volunteer to translate this text into non-English languages.
Use the boinc_loc email list.
Post a request on the email list to do translation for a language of your choice.
You can provide "customer support" to new BOINC participants: answering their questions about volunteer computing and the various BOINC-based projects, helping them download and install BOINC, and helping them fix whatever problems they encounter. There are two customer support systems: the message boards on the BOINC web site, and an online system where users can contact you personally via Skype or email.
Use the BOINC message boards, and the boinc_helpers email list.
You can jump right in by answering questions on the BOINC message boards. If you're willing to provide online (one on one) support, register to be a BOINC help volunteer.
Help generate publicity for BOINC.