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# Volunteer

**Graphite is built by volunteers.** Join the effort to bring great, free creative software to the world.

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## Code contributions

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**Get started by reading the contributor guide:**

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

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### EDITOR TEAM

Write code to build and maintain the Graphite editor itself, ranging from the TypeScript/Svelte frontend UI to the tooling business logic written in Rust.

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### GRAPHENE TEAM

Develop the engine that powers Graphite's node graph and rendering. Graphene is a programming language, compiler, and distributed runtime ecosystem built upon Rust.

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## Creative contributions

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<a href="https://discord.graphite.rs">
	<img src="https://static.graphite.rs/content/volunteer/creative-contributions.avif" onerror="this.onerror = null; this.src = this.src.replace('.avif', '.jpg')" alt="Flavor graphic depicting a fountain pen, ink pots, and a book" />
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**Ask how to get started by reaching out to a [core team member](/about#core-team) on Discord:**

<a href="https://discord.graphite.rs" class="button arrow">Reach out on Discord</a>

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### ART TEAM

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

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### PUBLICITY TEAM

Become the author of release notes, feature announcements, blog posts, website content, the user manual, press releases, social media posts, and industry outreach.

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