The best way to get involved in the Simple Invoices community is to download and install Simple Invoices and post your ideas, queries, bugs, documentation, request for help, whatever, in our forums all ideas etc are welcome, the more the better http://simpleinvoices.org/forum/

There are many ways you can help out with the development of Simple Invoices even if you can't code.

• Refer translate for more info on all things tranlsation
• Update an existing translation: Simple Invoices has been translated in a number of languages but not all of these translated are actively maintained (with each new release of Simple Invoices there are new phrases to be translated). Check of the Lang Check page to find out if there are any translations you can help update
• New translation: Your language is not in the Lang Check page. That means you are free to create a new translation of Simple Invoices! Its not to hard, just grab the latest release(or svn if possible) and translate 1 text file (note: there are a few hundred phrases to translate). Refer the Transalation wiki page and forum for more detailed information
  • Translation wiki page and instructions
  • Translation Forum

• Theres always some posts on the forum that can be better answered. If you can help out answering/resolving someones issue its a great help and a great way to build a stronger community
• Got some useful tips: Feel free to post any tips/updates/whaterver in our forum or blog.

• Know or want to know PHP and or MySQL. Jump on the forum or check out our roadmap to see whats planned for future development. If you can lend a hand coding its always greatly appreciated.
• Note: for those interested in Simple Invoices development I suggest a quick read of the following links
  • 37signals.com :: less features, small and passionate dev teams
  • Our dev mantra/design philosophy
  • What were on about
  • Got an idea you want to code but its not on our list or forum. Go for it!!! Just because we havent thought about it or bugged it doesnt mean it shouldnt get done (alot of Simple Invoices dev is stuff someone thought about at 2am in the morning and just started coding). Just keep in mind the above reading: have fun and keep it simple.

• Are your a casual developer, UI freak? Looking to work on Simple Invoices but svn head may not be your style. No worries, there are plenty of 'jobs' in the Simple Invoices community that need workers
• In the 'Dreamtime roadmap' we list jobs/projects that would be a great addition to Simple Invoices, can be worked on independently of developers, and no one else is looking at. Enjoy :)
• The complete todo list for Simple Invoices is at http://code.google.com/p/simpleinvoices/wiki/todo , feel free to jump in and help with any items you want - any help is always apprecited

Want to help decide the future development direction of Simple Invoices? Feel free ot vote in various Simple Invoices polls in the vote page

Want to automatically keep in touch with the latest happenings of Simple Invoices. You can subscribe (via either email or rss) to Simple Invoices Blog here

or just click on whichever RSS you want below and follow the instructions

• Blog
• Forum posts
• Website & Wiki edits
• Subversion/Issue Tracking update
• Google group/Mailing list

• Simple Invoices google group :: http://groups.google.com/group/simpleinvoices
• Simple Invoices dev tracker list :: http://groups.google.com/group/simpleinvoices-trac
  • auto generated posts from our development area

Feel free to jump into the Simple Invoices IRC channel #simpleinvoices on irc.freenode.net

Note: our IRC channel has move to Jabber - refer below

Feel free to jump into the Simple Invoices jabber/xmpp channel simpleinvoices@conference.jabber.org

Note: you can use your normal jabber/xmpp/google im account to connect to this channel, just will need a client that supports jabber. ie Pidgin, PSI, Miranda, Empathy etc..