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[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Contributing is exactly what he is doing. You dont have to make a PR to contribute to a project, he is trying to bring awareness to an issue he is passionate about. Him sparking the conversation can make waves much larger than he can manage by doing the screenshot marketing for projects himself one at a time. There are way too many projects for one person acting alone to make a real dent.

[–] PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Contributing doesn't happen on Lemmy lol

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

idk, he got those words into atleast 200 peoples heads from here, and probably many more that didn't vote on it. I would say getting that many people to think about it is pretty good for the couple minutes it took to write that comment down.

[–] PeachMan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

200 people that aren't contributing. They actually have a page on their site encouraging people to get involved in the site design: https://developer.gimp.org/core/wgo/