:og:description: Join the Flower community! Explore tutorials and guides to contribute code, documentation, translations, and more to advance federated learning with Flower.
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    :description: Join the Flower community! Explore tutorials and guides to contribute code, documentation, translations, and more to advance federated learning with Flower.

Contribute
==========

The Flower community welcomes contributions. The following docs are intended to help
along the way.

Tutorials
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A learning-oriented series of tutorials, the best place to start.

.. toctree::
    :titlesonly:
    :caption: Contributor tutorials

    contributor-tutorial-contribute-on-github
    contributor-tutorial-get-started-as-a-contributor

How-to guides
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Problem-oriented how-to guides show step-by-step how to achieve a specific goal.

.. toctree::
    :titlesonly:

    contributor-how-to-install-development-versions
    contributor-how-to-set-up-a-virtual-env
    contributor-how-to-develop-in-vscode-dev-containers
    contributor-how-to-write-documentation
    contributor-how-to-release-flower
    contributor-how-to-contribute-translations
    contributor-how-to-build-docker-images

Explanations
------------

Understanding-oriented concept guides explain and discuss key topics and underlying
ideas behind Flower and collaborative AI.

.. toctree::
    :titlesonly:
    :caption: Contributor explanations

    contributor-explanation-public-and-private-apis

References
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Information-oriented API reference and other reference material.

.. toctree::
    :titlesonly:
    :caption: Contributor references

    contributor-ref-good-first-contributions
    contributor-ref-secure-aggregation-protocols