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title: "Video: Contributing to dbatools & dbareports Using GitHub Desktop"
url: "https://dbatools.io/video-contributing-to-dbatools-dbareports-using-github-desktop/"
tags: ["party"]
last_updated: "2016-12-02"
---

# Video: Contributing to dbatools & dbareports Using GitHub Desktop

Recently, I presented to the Philadelphia PowerShell User Group about Contributing to Open Source PowerShell projects using GitHub Desktop. I chose this topic because a number of people have asked for step-by-step instructions on how to work with GitHub.

I love the command line, but with Git? I think it's important to get the concepts down first and the [Desktop version](https://desktop.github.com/) makes that a lot easier to contribute to projects like dbatools, dbareports and even [PowerShell](https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell) itself.

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[In the presentation](https://dbatools.io/firstpullvideo), I pretty much follow along with the tutorial on our wiki called **[Your First Pull Request](https://dbatools.io/firstpull)**. But! I also included some information about working with PowerShell, PowerShell modules and PowerShell-centric GitHub repositories that was not in the tutorial, so there's still some good information to gain even if you already know how to make a Pull Request.

So if you've wanted to get involved in the project but were a bit hesitant because you aren't comfortable with git, check out this informative and fun video and Get-Contributing 😊