# How to start contributing?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-start-contributing/54529
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 20, 2016, 4:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-start-contributing/54529 "2016-12-20T04:54:26Z")
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### Author: ![Mynk96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea5d25/32.png) [@Mynk96](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mynk96)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 4:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-start-contributing/54529/1 "2016-12-20T04:54:26Z")

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I am newbie here,can somebody here guide me how to go through and start solving bugs? i ahve hosted discourse on my local machine ? can somebody help me please?

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 5:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-start-contributing/54529/2 "2016-12-20T05:33:28Z")

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See [Contributing to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-contribute-to-discourse/53797)

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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 11:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-start-contributing/54529/3 "2016-12-20T11:02:28Z")

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