# Contributing Beanstalk belongs to the Beanstalk DAO and is developed as an open source, permissionless public good. Anyone can contribute to Beanstalk and the Bean-based economy by: * [Participating in Beanstalk governance](#participating-in-beanstalk-governance); * [Building with Beanstalk and Beans](#building-with-beanstalk-and-beans); * [Submitting improvements to the Beanstalk protocol](#submitting-improvements-to-beanstalk-documentation); * [Submitting improvements to Beanstalk development tooling](#submitting-improvements-to-the-beanstalk-protocol); * [Submitting improvements to Beanstalk documentation](#submitting-improvements-to-beanstalk-development-tooling); * [Becoming a member of the Beanstalk Farms Committee](#becoming-a-member-of-the-beanstalk-farms-committee); or * [Funding your own development organization](#funding-your-own-organization). ### Participating in Beanstalk governance Become a [Stalkholder](/almanac/protocol/glossary.md#stalkholders) and participate in Beanstalk governance by [Depositing whitelisted assets](/almanac/farm/silo.md#deposit-whitelist) in the [Silo](/almanac/farm/silo.md) to earn [Stalk](/almanac/farm/silo.md#the-stalk-system). Read more about [Beanstalk governance](/almanac/governance/beanstalk.md) and the various[ proposals](/almanac/governance/proposals.md). Each governance proposal has a channel for discussion on the Beanstalk Discord. ### Building with Beanstalk and Beans Beanstalk's [capital efficient model](/almanac/introduction/why-beanstalk.md) is designed to facilitate a Bean-based economy of protocols and businesses benefiting from building on Beanstalk and using Beans. Beanstalk welcomes builders and provides a competitive edge to your project. Discuss business ideas in the **(#💡・business-ideas)** channel on the Beanstalk Discord. ### Submitting improvements to the Beanstalk protocol The Beanstalk protocol is deployed on Ethereum mainnet. The code base is open source and developed on [GitHub](https://github.com/BeanstalkFarms/Beanstalk). Discuss improvements to Beanstalk in the **(#💡・beanstalk-ideas)** channel in the Beanstalk Discord. Protocol changes are submitted as [Beanstalk Improvement Proposals](/almanac/governance/proposals.md#bip) (BIPs) and are committed if passed by Stalkholders. ### Submitting improvements to Beanstalk development tooling All Beanstalk development tooling, such as the [Beanstalk UI](https://github.com/BeanstalkFarms/Beanstalk/tree/master/projects/ui), [SDK](https://github.com/BeanstalkFarms/Beanstalk/tree/master/projects/sdk) and [Subgraph](https://github.com/BeanstalkFarms/Beanstalk/tree/master/projects/subgraph-beanstalk), are open source. Leave feedback on the Beanstalk UI in the **(#🌐・ui-feedback)** channel and discuss improvements to Beanstalk development tooling in the **(#🪵・development)** channel in the Beanstalk Discord. ### Submitting improvements to Beanstalk documentation Documentation around Beanstalk is continually improving and help is more than welcome. Leave feedback in the **(#📜・docs-feedback)** channel on the Beanstalk Discord or make a pull request directly to: * the [Farmers' Almanac repository](https://github.com/BeanstalkFarms/Farmers-Almanac); * the [Beanstalk Whitepaper repository](https://github.com/BeanstalkFarms/Beanstalk-Whitepaper); or * the [Pipeline Whitepaper repository](https://github.com/BeanstalkFarms/Pipeline-Whitepaper). ### Becoming a member of the Beanstalk Farms Committee Hiring for Beanstalk Farms is performed by the [Beanstalk Farms Committee](/almanac/governance/beanstalk-farms.md#beanstalk-farms-committee) (BFC). You can join the BFC yourself through a [BFCP-A proposal](/almanac/governance/proposals.md#bfcp-a). ### Funding your own development organization Decentralization of development of the Beanstalk protocol is critical to the long term success of Beanstalk. Anyone can propose a [BIP](/almanac/governance/proposals.md#bip) to the DAO in order to mint Beans to fund their own organization. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.bean.money/almanac/community/contributing.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.