ZecHub helps people learn about Zcash
If you're reading this page, we're really excited that you're considering contributing! Any contribution you make will be reflected on zechub.xyz and other ZecHub social media ✨
To get an overview of ZecHub, read the README.
ZecHub uses GitHub to manage community contribution. If you're new to GitHub, don't worry! We're going to break down how you can get involved as a community contributor to ZecHub. We pay out tips in ZEC for accepted contribution.
In this guide you will get an overview of the contribution workflow from opening an issue, creating a pull request (PR), reviewing, and merging the PR.
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First, join the conversation in the Zcash Global discord. There's a ZecHub section where we chat about all things ZecHub 😄
Don’t forget to add the ZecHub role in #lang-menu channel!
Any contribution to ZecHub should follow the ZecHub style guides. This includes wikis, docs and social media contents.
ZecHub is a community-driven project that aims to provide support and resources for Zcash users and developers. There are many ways to get involved with ZecHub, including writing for our weekly newsletter, contributing to our knowledge base, or helping out with development projects.
These are the types of contribution that ZecHub currently accepts:
Create and share tutorials on Zcash apps and get rewarded. Example tutorial here. Submit PR to zechub/tutorials or send video to #video-content channel in Discord. If video meets our criteria, we’ll post it and tip you 😄
Our wiki-docs page provides Zcash education materials in an easy and digestible format. Zcash is a very advanced technology with a vibrant community, so there's still more documentation we need to build. Our goal is to build documentation on:
- Zcash and its related technologies
- ZEC (Zcash currency) use cases
- New user guides
- Zcash community and ecosystem
These are pretty broad areas, so there's a lot to work from. If you want some inspiration, check out our current wiki-docs site and see what's missing. Once you determine what you want to write, start to make your changes and learn how to submit a PR to the ZecHub repo. All of our docs are created and maintained in this repo. Use the docs template and follow the ZecHub style when writing a wiki page.
After you submit a PR, please message @dismad or @tokidoki in the #zecwiki section of the discord, and they will review your PR and merge if it is ready to be added to the site. If merged, they will add the doc to the ZecHub website. If the doc is not ready, they will suggest edits for you in the PR.
Here is an example tutorial of adding a translated wiki page.
ZecHub's goal is to provide an open-source education hub that anyone in the Zcash community can contribute to. One of the hub's biggest successes is seeing community members translate ZecHub materials into their local language.
Note* ZecHub Global page translation rate limit is 10 pages per week.
Sometimes our information in the docs isn't spot on. That's okay. That's why we open-source them! If you find something that needs a change in a wiki-doc, please go to the footer of the doc (which links to its Github page) and suggest a change via a PR.
If you find that a link is broken, or something important is mispelled, please go to the footer of the doc (which links to its Github page) and suggest the change via a PR.
We produce the ecosystem's weekly newsletter. This is a super low lift / easy way to get involved! The newsletter goes out every Friday or Saturday. If you want to write a newsletter, message @squirrel or @tokidoki in the #zecweekly section of the Discord to let them know.
After you do that, you can go to the newsletter section of this repository and submit a pull request to create a new edition of the newsletter. Please follow the format used in this template.
After you do this @squirrel or @tokidoki (in Discord) will see that your new edition of the newsletter available, and they'll review and then merge it to the repository. After it's been merged, they'll take the content and post it via Substack.
We'd love for you to contribute the next edition of the ZecWeekly newsletter, or translate the content into other languages! We currently have editions in Spanish, Portuguese and Russian. The translated versions are posted on their socials, and we do our best to amplify them via the ZecHub social.
If you want to translate the newsletter into your local language, we send tips for that too. Let us know what channel you would share it from and the language you would publish the newsletter in, so we can coordinate its release.
ZecHub made videos before, like a news show. They stopped for now, but you can help. Do you have an idea for a news show, podcast, Twitter talk, or other video/audio thing? Tell us in Discord #video-content and we’ll talk 😄
Rewards for this type of content are a bit larger, so a proposal would need to be submitted to ZecHub's DAO before approving the spend. That process usually takes a week.
We want new engaging content for our social media. You can get up to .75 ZEC for short videos, GIFs, memes or other creative posts. Follow the ZecHub style when creating a social media post.
You can also design thumbnails for our newsletter and podcast. If you have design talent, message us in #design on Discord.
Have another suggestion? Tell us in #general on Discord. We can discuss it and see if ZecHub's DAO will support it.
If you spot a problem with ZecHub contents, search if an issue already exists. If a related issue doesn't exist, you can open a new issue using a relevant issue form.
Scan through our existing issues to find one that interests you. You can narrow down the search using labels as filters. As a general rule, we don’t assign issues to anyone. If you find an issue to work on, you are welcome to open a PR with a fix.
- Fork the repository.
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Using GitHub Desktop:
- Getting started with GitHub Desktop will guide you through setting up Desktop.
- Once Desktop is set up, you can use it to fork the repo!
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Using the command line:
- Fork the repo so that you can make your changes without affecting the original project until you're ready to merge them.
- Create a working branch and start with your changes!
Commit the changes once you are happy with them. Don't forget to self-review to speed up the review process ⚡
When you're finished with the changes, create a pull request, also known as a PR. Include your unified address (UA) in the PR so we can send you a tip!
Please do not hesitate to get started contributing to one of the industry's most respected protocols. This is a great way to get involved with Zcash. If you have any questions about contributing, please let us know on Discord.
Thanks!