contribute.html

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layout: default
title: Contribute to the Lime
---

<div class="container">
	<div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-10 col-md-offset-1">
      <h1>Made with <span class="text-danger">&hearts;</span>, <a href="http://golang.org/">Go</a> and You!</h1>
      <p>
        We are all committed to making an easy-to-use, efficient and free text editor
        for everyone.
      </p>
      <p>
        The <a href="https://github.com/limetext/lime">Backend</a> itself is written in Go. If you
        want to have a try at fixing some <a href="https://github.com/limetext/lime/issues">issues
        we encounter</a>, go ahead and fork the project! If you need help at any point, just come
        up on IRC to discuss with the others. Lime is still in an early stage but it is evolving along quickly.
      </p>
      <p>
        The <a href="https://github.com/limetext/lime">Frontend</a> is written in
        <span class="text-yellow">whatever GUI language suits you</span>! At the moment there are
        termbox, Qt (QML) and HTML/JavaScript implementations. Dart and Skia are in discussion.
        If one of these languages appeals to you, feel free to push the task forward and contribute
        to the codebase!
      </p>
      <p>
        The <a href="https://github.com/limetext/limetext.github.io">Website</a> is statically
        generated via <a href="http://jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a> on
        <a href="http://pages.github.com/">GitHub Pages</a>. We use the 
        <a href="http://getbootstrap.com/">Bootstrap Framework</a> and <a href="http://jquery.com/">jQuery</a>.
        Fluent English writers are important to us as well, since Wikis and Documentation need to
        be written. The story of the Lime has to be told <i class="fa fa-smile-o"></i>
      </p>
      
      <hr>
      
      <h1>Contributors</h1>
      <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-6">
          <h3 class="text-yellow"><i class="fa fa-tasks"></i> Lime Backend</h3>
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        </div>
        <div class="col-md-6">
          <h3 class="text-yellow"><i class="fa fa-desktop"></i> Lime Website</h3>
          <ul id="committer-frontend" class="list-inline committer-list"></ul>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

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