Some of the ways you can contribute to Penpot!

[carolina.portugal]

Hello all!

At penpot you have many ways to contribute, no matter where you are or your level of expertise. We have three main areas of contribution: code, design and languages.

Code

We have many ways to contribute to the Penpot code. The one that is the simplest is Reporting Bugs. If you have a bug or an idea, read the contributing guidelines before opening an issue.

Also, we have an extensive list of contributions welcome as a tag in our GitHub issues. Furthermore, you can find the highlight of that list here:

Code Contributions welcome!

Thinking of contributing to Penpot core but not sure where to start? We’ve made a curated selection of enhancements to help you with that. We believe that these tasks should be a great way to get started with Penpot development and quickly become an active contributor. How to start If you decide to start working on one contribution, please tell us so we can help you. We are willing to provide guidance, context and all the information needed. You can do it the way you are most comfortable with, …

Right now, we are looking for help with the Penpot exporter:

Export Figma to Penpot

[Oct. 13 update] The Figma skeleton plugin is already published here: GitHub - penpot/penpot-exporter-figma-plugin: Penpot exporter Figma plugin At the Penpot team, due to the recent increase of the interest by community members in being able to import Figma files to Penpot and also in assisting and/or creating the importer, we’ve been discussing the best approach to make it happen. We have already decided a course of action: We are working on a code skeleton for the minimum version of a Fig…

UX/UI contributions

At this moment, we have a list of Libraries & templates contributions that can help you get inspired. For other types of UX/UI contributions, we are still assessing what is the best way to handle it.

Libraries & templates contributions welcome!

Are you thinking to contribute for penpot and don’t know how? One way it’s to create a libraries & templates. By sharing it with the community, you support others to benefit from your designs. Design anything you’d like to share. This file can be a template or a library of components, assets, icons … We have cured, a list of templates with ideas that we would love to see share with all Penpot community. How to start If you decide to start working on one contribution, please check our page Ho…

Keep an eye on the community, time to time we came here to ask for help with feature testing and feedback on important roadmap topics.

Languages

Would you love to see Penpot in your language? You can make it a possible! Helping with translations is very easy, create a Weblate account and just leave a comment here with your Weblate user and the language you would like to translate. We will grant you the access to it.

These are our basic contribution, if you have more ideas on how to contribute, let us know, we would love to make it possible!

If you need help to start working on one contribution, please tell us! We will provide guidance, context and all the information that you require.

[panchtatvam]

Hi,

I would like to work on translation (Languages) aspect. Please point me in the right direction.

Thank you

[carolina.portugal]

Hi @panchtatvam , which language would you like to translate? Please, send me your Weblate user and I can give you access

[bill_bakas]

Hello,

I would like to help with the translations of the Greek Language. My Webplate username is: @bill-mpakas

Thank you!

[myfunnyandy]

Hi, you’ve already been added to the weblate project.

Here you can find more information about how to contribute on the translations: 02· Translations

Thanks!