# New guy arriving, looking for best way to contribute

**URL:** <https://community.penpot.app/t/new-guy-arriving-looking-for-best-way-to-contribute/10873>\
**Category:** Contribution\
**Tags:** clojure, code, developers\
**Created:** [September 8, 2026, 11:19am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/new-guy-arriving-looking-for-best-way-to-contribute/10873 "2026-09-08T11:19:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![iggar](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/iggar/32/11152_2.png) [@iggar](https://community.penpot.app/u/iggar)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 11:19am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/new-guy-arriving-looking-for-best-way-to-contribute/10873/1 "2026-09-08T11:19:14Z")

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Hello,

I’m an experienced software engineer with large experience in Clojure, also a Free Software enthusiast and a 20+ years Debian user. I’m looking to contribute to Penpot but not sure how to get started, as there are lots of issues and PRs and I feel like I could be helpful in multiple fronts such as:

- bug triage / try to reproduce bugs, add useful info to an open issue
- review PRs and add comments / suggestions / LGTM
- code new features or fix bugs
- participate on engineering discussions / decisions

I am very pragmatic and I normally use my “old school” approach before attempting to ask AI what to do. I see some open source projects losing control of the direction because of AI pushing too much and too fast and I want to help Penpot avoid that.

Any tips or suggestions are appreciated.

Cheers

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**Author:** ![carolina.portugal](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/carolina.portugal/32/36_2.png) [@carolina.portugal](https://community.penpot.app/u/carolina.portugal)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/new-guy-arriving-looking-for-best-way-to-contribute/10873/2 "2026-09-08T12:20:17Z")

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Hello @iggar, we are super happy that you would like to contribute. Usually we have a bigged good first issue list, but lately we are getting a lot of help from the community. Take a look there: [Issues · penpot/penpot · GitHub](https://github.com/penpot/penpot/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22good%20first%20issue%22)

I am checking with the team on where else you could help in the meantime.

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**Author:** ![carolina.portugal](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/carolina.portugal/32/36_2.png) [@carolina.portugal](https://community.penpot.app/u/carolina.portugal)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 7:37am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/new-guy-arriving-looking-for-best-way-to-contribute/10873/3 "2026-09-09T07:37:21Z")

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Hey, we also have the list of contribution welcome: [Issues · penpot/penpot · GitHub](https://github.com/penpot/penpot/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22contribution%20welcome%22)

There are a few more options where you can start. Let me know if you need any help!