Get involved

Graphite is 100% built by volunteers. Get involved in the effort to bring great, free creative software to the world.

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Code contributions

Get started by reading the contributor guide:

<a href="/volunteer/guide" class="button arrow">Contributor guide</a>

</div> <div class="diptych code-contributions"> <div class="block feature-box-narrow"> <h1 class="feature-box-header">Editor team</h1>

The Graphite editor is built much like a game engine, split across user interface application tooling and a renderer with nodes implementing an assortment of graphics algorithms.

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Graphene is a programming language, interpreter, and runtime environment built upon Rust which enables Graphite artwork to compile to executable programs for fast rendering.

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Creative contributions

Assign yourself the "🙌 Interested in helping with art or marketing" role in the #welcome Discord channel. Then mention your experience and how you'd like to help in the #introductions channel.

<a href="https://discord.graphite.art" class="button arrow">Volunteer on Discord</a>

</div> <div class="diptych creative-contributions"> <div class="block feature-box-narrow"> <h1 class="feature-box-header">Art team</h1>

Use your artistic talents to conceptualize and produce high-quality open art projects published by the Graphite project to stress-test and showcase the editor's capabilities.

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Help write, edit, and design content for this website, social media, newsletters, blog posts, user manual pages, videos, fundraising campaigns, press releases, and industry outreach.

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User contributions

Assign yourself the "🐒 Volunteer to get pinged regularly for QA testing" or "🤖 Interested in contributing code" roles in the #welcome Discord channel. In the latter case, drop by the #development channel to get advice writing your first node.

<a href="https://discord.graphite.art" class="button arrow">Volunteer on Discord</a>

</div> <div class="diptych user-contributions"> <div class="block feature-box-narrow"> <h1 class="feature-box-header">QA team</h1>

Get familiar with the ins-and-outs of the editor and respond actively to developer requests on a recurring basis to test out new features and find bugs and breakages.

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Explore and push the limits of the node graph with complex procedural designs. Report your findings about limitations, opportunities, and use cases to help in designing new nodes.

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