It may well be that you haven't considered contributing to any open source project, let alone the IntelliJ Scala plugin. However, if you use IntelliJ IDEA to write Scala code, it's actually a very reasonable thing to do. Here's how you can benefit from contributing to the plugin code base. There's a common misconception about attracting contributors where the process is viewed as "a way to get developers for free." Nothing could be further from the truth, at least in our case. While the Scala plugin code is open source, there are currently 10 people in the Scala team at JetBrains working on