8 Ways To Get Involved With The Liferay Community

Over the years, Liferay has been able to provide many individuals and organizations a unique platform to give them a stronger presence on the web. But we aren't able to accomplish this mission alone. A huge contributing factor of our success has been the deep and vibrant contributions from our community members. Essentially, people like yourself who make up the 100,000 strong!

Why do people participate in the community? For starters, it would reap some immediate benefits like helping to build your online reputation or growing your knowledge of how large-scale open source works. But it will also make your job easier down the road by making Liferay better. (Not to mention, doesn't it just feel good knowing that you're taking part of contributing to the greater good?)

Whether you are new to the Liferay community or just finding more ways to contribute, we want to invite you to participate in growing our Liferay ecosystem! Here are 8 ways to get involved with the Liferay open source community.

1. Attend Liferay-sponsored events

This should be as much fun as it is educational! With over dozens of webinars, community meet-ups and industry events, you have the opportunity to keep up with the latest trends within Liferay and connect with other fellow community members. (Click here to see our upcoming events.)

2. Try out milestone builds & join community beta programs

We invite our community to try out these builds and respond with comments or concerns about the latest features, bug fixes and other updates. Liferay has always benefited from the generous feedback of our community, and your contribution can help push us further along in the journey to making Liferay better.

3. Participate in forums

Whether it’s discussing topics related to feature development or just simply hanging out with other users and developers, the forums are a great place to get connected. Both newbies and experts are welcome here!

4. Join the bug squad

The main purpose for the bug squad is to improve the quality and usability of Liferay project releases before they are generally available. And believe or not, it is made up of volunteers mostly from our community. Join today!

5. Suggest a feature for Liferay

Do you have a great idea for a Liferay feature? Things like web content management to docs and media or UI infrastructure—wherever we can possibly improve, we invite you to contribute to our ideation process.

6. Develop an app

The Liferay Marketplace is an exciting place to sell, share and download Liferay-compatible apps, and it’s only growing with several new and creative apps every day. Showcase your talent and develop an app that could be used and shared by many others!

7. Suggest an improvement to the docs

Maybe you have a strong penchant for words and documentation. When you're taking a break from penning the next great American novel, why not find some docs that could use some improvement and submit your suggestions? This will help our community go a long way.

8. Tweet about your Liferay experience

Sharing your overall experience through Twitter (and other social media, for that matter) is a way to help spread the word so others can discover the usefulness of Liferay for themselves. Follow us @Liferay or use #Liferay to keep us on your radar!

We hope these basic tips will help you discover some of the ways you can get plugged into Liferay. In addition, we recently created a new tour experience of dev.liferay.com for those of you who are interested. Check it out here and see how you can take it to the next level in our community! 

At the end of the day, your contributions to our open source community will help drive innovation and growth amongst our members. We welcome all you have to offer, and we look forward to the good work you'll do in the near future.

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