Get involved

Participation

• Begin a new discussion or contribute to existing discussions in the Open Payments GitHub repo.
• Join our Open Payments Community calls.
• Join the interledger.slack.com workspace and ask any questions you have in the #open-payments channel.

Coding

• Contribute to open issues in the Open Payments repository.
• Create issues on Github including
  • Suggesting specification changes
  • Reporting bugs
  • Requesting features
  • CTA for adding a new supported payment method to Open Payments (currently only supports Interledger as a payment method.)
• Contribute to the openapi, open-payments, and http-signature-utils packages.

Community and hackathons

• Join us at the Interledger Summit and participate in our annual hackathon.
• Organize your own hackathons, coding sprints, and workships, both online and offline. Here’s a few ideas to inspire you:
  • Create an e-commerce application with a “Pay with Open Payments” flow
  • Build a subscription service built with Open Payments APIs
  • Develop an application that uses pay-as-you-go and takes advantage of the Open Payments grant APIs, which give access for an application to gradually make payments from user accounts, up to a limit
  • Port the Open Payments SDK to another programming language (the current SDK was built with Node.js and TypeScript)

Localization

• Translate and localize the Open Payments Overview page into one of the following languages:
  • Arabic
  • Chinese
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
• Review translated and localized content.

Documentation

Contribute to the docs by suggesting additions and improvements.

Review our contribution guide for details.