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# 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

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<a href="/volunteer/guide">
	<img src="https://static.graphite.art/content/volunteer/code-contributions.avif" class="feature-box-full-image" style="aspect-ratio: 3/1 auto; background: var(--color-seaside)" onerror="this.onerror = null; this.src = this.src.replace('.avif', '.jpg')" alt="Flavor graphic depicting a library of knowledge in a digital realm" />
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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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<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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<h1 class="feature-box-header">Compiler team</h1>

[Graphene](/volunteer/guide/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

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<img src="https://static.graphite.art/content/volunteer/creative-contributions.avif" class="feature-box-full-image" style="aspect-ratio: 3/1 auto; background: var(--color-lemon)" 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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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>

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<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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<h1 class="feature-box-header">Marketing team</h1>

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

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<img src="https://static.graphite.art/content/volunteer/user-contributions.avif" class="feature-box-full-image" style="aspect-ratio: 3/1 auto; background: var(--color-lilac)" onerror="this.onerror = null; this.src = this.src.replace('.avif', '.jpg')" alt="Flavor graphic depicting a magnifying glass on the search for a software bug" />

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>

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<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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<h1 class="feature-box-header">Nodes team</h1>

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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