You don't need to submit pull requests to contribute to the CodeBuddies community.
On Slack:
Help each other out with your coding questions.
Share useful or informative links.
Award points to other users by @username++ them.
On CodeBuddies.org:
Start a silent hangout to invite others to cowork with you
Start a teaching hangout to teach something you know
Start a collaborative hangout to pair program or work through a tutorial
Joining an organizing team
Join the #podcast channel if you're interested in producing podcast episodes (cross-posted on YouTube) as an interviewer or video editor
Join the #cb-newsletter channel if you're interested in helping out with the newsletter or Medium publication
Join #cb-sponsors-outreach if you're interested in being on the team that reaches out to sponsors
Join #cb-forum if you're interested in helping grow forum.codebuddies.org as a moderator
On our Open Collective:
Donate to our Open Collective to support us financially -- or if you know of a company who would like to sponsor, please connect us with them. :) Our finances are 100% transparent on the Open Collective, and will go to expenses like:
domain renewal
hosting costs
upgrading our database hosting
upgrading our mailgun plan (for sending transactional emails)