== How to Help Python ==

There are tons of ways you can help out Python and the associated community.  Because Python is a community project,
there's very little structure; you just have to find an area you're interested in and dive in!  Money is good, but
time is even more precious; contribute your time to Python today!

Here are a few ideas:

- [[CoreDevelopment|Help out with core Python development]] by reviewing patches and fixing bugs.

- Proofread, edit, and extend the [[http://www.python.org/dev/doc/|documentation]]

- Join a [[LocalUserGroups|local user group]] and encourage other people you know to attend.

- [[http://www.python.org/psf/volunteer/|Volunteer]] to help out the Python Software Foundation!

- Blog about your own Pythonic endeavors and syndicate your blog on [[http://planet.python.org/|planet.python.org]] and [[http://planetpython.org/|planetpython.org]].

- Participate in the Google Summer of Code or the Google Highly Open Participation contest as a mentor or a student.

- Download interesting packages from the [[http://pypi.python.org/pypi|Python Package Index]], install them, and test them out.

- Help porting python [[Python3PortingStatus|modules and software]] or [[Python3LinuxDistroPortingStatus|operating system depencies]] from Python 2 to Python 3. This is a serious issue as [[http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/#release-schedule|the last Python 2 release happens in 2020]].