Recent changes to Joining a Project

Joining a Project modified by SourceForge Support

SourceForge Support — Fri, 06 May 2022 19:27:52 -0000

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 [Project Search](https://sourceforge.net/directory/)

 # Joining a project
-To join a project, contact the project administrators and offer your services. Project administrators will make the decision whether to let you join the project, and will handle adding you to the project.
+To join a project, contact the project administrators and offer your services. Project administrators will decide whether to let you join the project and handle adding you to the project.

 Also, since this is Open Source, the fastest way to get involved in a project is to start submitting patches. Frequent and persistent contributors of patches tend to get invited to be full committers.

Joining a Project modified by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:37:44 -0000

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 # Find a project that interests you
 To locate an existing project which would be of interest to you, consider using:

-Search
-[Freshmeat](http://freshmeat.com)
-[Project Help Wanted system](http://sourceforge.net/people/)
+[Project Help Wanted system](https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/helpwanted/)
+[Project Search](https://sourceforge.net/directory/)

 # Joining a project
 To join a project, contact the project administrators and offer your services. Project administrators will make the decision whether to let you join the project, and will handle adding you to the project.

WikiPage Joining a Project modified by Rich Bowen

Rich Bowen — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:22:05 -0000

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 # Joining a project
 To join a project, contact the project administrators and offer your services. Project administrators will make the decision whether to let you join the project, and will handle adding you to the project.
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+Also, since this is Open Source, the fastest way to get involved in a project is to start submitting patches. Frequent and persistent contributors of patches tend to get invited to be full committers.