# Turning users into contributors

DevFeed: [Turning users into contributors](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/turning-users-into-contributors-40716.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://radek.io/posts/marketing-for-open-source-projects-4/>)

Published: 2015-10-05T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Radek Pazdera](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/radek-pazdera.md>)

Topics: [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Users](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/users.md>), [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [GUI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gui.md>)

Tags: [contributors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributors.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [projects](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/projects.md>)

## AI overview

This article presents strategies for turning users of an open-source project into contributors. It recommends making the project's open-source status and contact paths visible, using crash dialogs and error messages to guide bug reports, inviting help with non-essential unfinished features, and providing separate developer documentation.

## Source excerpt

Marketing for open-source projects #4