Many people from around the world gather to build Mageia – a Linux-based operating system and a lively, fun community for building Free Software projects.

Contributing is open to everyone, this is Free Software! If you are curious and willing to join, there are things you can do, depending on your time and your skills, You will always find someone to welcome you and help/mentor you if needed so you bring your best to the project!

Check what you could do below!

Roles

  • Helping users & advocating the project

    Want to welcome and help new users or share tips with experienced ones? In IRC channels, forums, mailing-lists, local events and places? Just get in touch with us there and share the fun!

  • Writing, copywriting and documenting

    You have a taste for practical, clear, concise, proof read, nice writing? You like to take the challenge of explaining clearly complex ideas or systems and teach others? You know how to mix form & content to push the right message? Get in touch with our Documentation team!

  • Translating

    Mageia is localized in more than 180 languages! Clarifying, completing, improving translations of software, guides, tutorials, Web sites, marketing material, etc. happens thanks to the effort of so many persons. Join them!

  • Triaging

    Bugs happen! Some get reported. And need to be triaged before reaching the person that can fix them: validated, informed, properly assigned. Grow the Triage team and be the link between users who report bugs in the forums or mailing-lists, and Mageia Bugzilla used by developers.

  • Testing & QA

    We can't ship software if we are not confident enough in it! Testers and QA people make sure what we do (software, packages, ISO, Web sites) match our expectations for quality before they reach users.

  • Marketing, Communication & Evangelism

    Better understanding of who uses and contributes to the project to help them even more, making sure the Mageia voice is consistent and heard, that's a job for the marcomm' team (Marketing and Communication), on global and local scales.

  • Graphic & UI design

    Software isn't only about code and Mageia about technology. So make it human, practical and beautiful! If you have a talent and experience in graphic design, ergonomics join the artwork team!

  • Coding & packaging

    Contribute to the core of the distribution with your technical skills! Adding, fixing, patching and maintaining software to be included in the distribution, from upstream projects or from Mageia-specific sources. Join the Packagers team!

  • Web, tools, systems design & administration

    Mageia exists through an infrastructure and tools that enable everyone to collaborate. These need experts to build, maintain, develop, provide, manage servers, connections, security, applications, user flow, etc. It takes system administrators to Web designers/developers/integrators.

  • Mirroring

    Making all Mageia software available requires several mirrors around the world, to distribute ISO and installation or update packages. If you have some space and bandwidth to share, please see how you can become an official Mageia mirror.

  • Donating

    Financial donations help us allocate specific tasks, secure our infrastructure, fund events, goodies & transportation. 200+ persons already expressed us their trust with their money, hardware or other resources. We keep a public record of what we get and how we use it.

  • Data mining

    There are tons of data out there, most of which we don't use, or even know about. If you like to grab and analyze data to reveal & visualize it and what that means we can do better, get in touch!

  • Designing, experimenting, revealing the unknown

    Ideas are great, actionable prototypes are even better. The Mageia project is not only about making a different Linux distribution but as well about building new products and experiences with it and the data around it.

Time

How much time do you have? and how much do want to commit to Mageia? See what you can do:

  • A few minutes

    • Stop by the forums support section and check if you can answer a question.
    • Talk about the project around you, on your blog, your Twitter account, at your work place.
    • If you encounter a bug you can reproduce and document, submit a bug report.
    • Make a donation!

  • A few hours

    • Stop by a Mageia event, like a test day to find, reproduce and resolve bugs.

    • Subscribe to a team discussion list and follow what happens there, try to see how you can bring something more to it.

  • A few weeks or more

    • Learn about free software, open source collaboration in general, and Mageia in particular.
    • If you are a student, consider talking to your tutor about participating into the project as part of your studies; you don't need to be specifically studying Computer Science.