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How to contribute?
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Ring is a free-open source project, Everyone is welcome to contribute to Ring.

Project Home : https://github.com/ring-lang/ring

You can help in many parts in the project

* Documentation
* Testing
* Samples
* Applications
* Editors Support
* Libraries in Ring
* Extensions in C/C++
* Compiler and Virtual Machine (VM)
* Ideas and suggestions

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Special thanks to contributors
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Throughout the creation of this project, Ring relied heavily on contributions from experts along with college students.  
Their input was invaluable, and we want to take a moment to thank them and recognize them for all of their hard work.

Ring Team: http://ring-lang.sf.net/team.html

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	pair: How to contribute?; Documentation

Documentation
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You can modify anything in the documentation, by updating the text files (*.txt)
in this folder : https://github.com/ring-lang/ring/tree/master/docs/source

The documentation is created using Sphinx : http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/

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	pair: How to contribute?; Testing

Testing
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You can write new tests in this folder 

https://github.com/ring-lang/ring/tree/master/tests/scripts


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	pair: How to contribute?; Samples

Samples
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You can add new samples to this folder

https://github.com/ring-lang/ring/tree/master/samples/other

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	pair: How to contribute?; Applications

Applications
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You can add new applications to this folder

https://github.com/ring-lang/ring/tree/master/applications

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	pair: How to contribute?; Libraries in Ring

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	pair: How to contribute?; Editors Support

Editors Support
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You can help in supporting Ring in different code editors

Check the next folder

https://github.com/ring-lang/ring/tree/master/editor

Libraries in Ring
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You can update and add libraries to this folder

https://github.com/ring-lang/ring/tree/master/ringlibs

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	pair: How to contribute?; Extensions in C/C++


Extensions in C/C++
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You can add and update extensions in this folder

https://github.com/ring-lang/ring/tree/master/extensions

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Compiler and Virtual Machine (VM)
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* Source Code (C Language) : https://github.com/ring-lang/ring/tree/master/src
* Visual Source (PWCT) : https://github.com/ring-lang/ring/tree/master/visualsrc

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Ideas and suggestions
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You can share your ideas, suggestions and questions in this group

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ring-lang