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- <div id="doc" class="yui-t7">
- <a name="top" />
- <div id="hd" role="banner"><h1><a id="logo" href="/"><span>Mageia</span></a> <span class="lsep">|</span> <span class="subh"><?php echo $_t['page_h1']; ?></span></h1></div>
- <div id="bd" role="main">
- <div class="yui-g">
- <div class="para">
- <p>Many people from around the world gather to build Mageia
- &ndash; a Linux-based operating system <em>and</em>
- a <a href="/en/about/code-of-conduct/">lively, fun community</a>
- for <a href="/en/about/values/">building Free Software projects</a>.</p>
-
- <p>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!</p>
-
- <p>Check what you could do below!</p>
-
- <ul id="contrib-sel">
- <li id=""><a href="#by-role">browse by role</a></li>
- <li id=""><a href="#by-time">browse by time</a></li>
- </ul>
-
- <h2 id="by-role">Roles</h2>
- <ul id="contrib-roles" class="contrib-list">
- <li id="support">
- <h3>Helping users &amp; advocating the project</h3>
- <p>Want to welcome and help new users or share tips with experienced ones?
- In <a href="/wiki/doku.php?id=irc">IRC channels</a>,
- <a href="http://forums.mageia.org/">forums</a>,
- <a href="http://mageia.org/mailman/">mailing-lists</a>,
- local events and places? Just get in touch with us there and share the fun!</p>
- </li>
- <li id="docu">
- <h3><a href="/wiki/doku.php?id=documentation">Writing, copywriting and documenting</a></h3>
- <p>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 &amp; content to push the right message?
- Get in touch with our <a href="/wiki/doku.php?id=documentation">Documentation team</a>!</p>
- </li>
- <li id="i18n">
- <h3><a href="/wiki/doku.php?id=translators">Translating</a></h3>
- <p>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 <a href="/wiki/doku.php?id=translators">them</a>!</p>
- </li>
- <li id="triage">
- <h3><a href="/wiki/doku.php?id=triage">Triaging</a></h3>
- <p>Bugs happen! Some get reported. And need to be triaged before reaching
- the person that can fix them: validated, informed, properly assigned.
- <a href="/wiki/doku.php?id=triage">Grow the Triage team</a> and be the link between users who report bugs
- in the forums or mailing-lists, and <a href="http://bugs.mageia.org/">Mageia Bugzilla</a>
- used by developers.</p>
- </li>
- <li id="qa">
- <h3><a href="/wiki/doku.php?id=qateam">Testing &amp; <abbr title="Quality Assurance">QA</abbr></a></h3>
- <p>We can't ship software if we are not confident enough in it!
- <a href="/wiki/doku.php?id=qateam">Testers and QA</a>
- people make sure what we do (software, packages, ISO, Web sites)
- match our expectations for quality before they reach users.</p>
- </li>
- <li id="marketing">
- <h3>Marketing, Communication &amp; Evangelism</h3>
- <p>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 <a href="http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=marketing">marcomm' team</a>
- (Marketing and Communication), on global and local scales.</p>
- </li>
- <li id="graphic">
- <h3>Graphic &amp; UI design</h3>
- <p>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
- <a href="/wiki/doku.php?id=designers">join the artwork team</a>!</p>
- </li>
- <li id="dev">
- <h3><a href="/wiki/doku.php?id=packagers">Coding &amp; packaging</a></h3>
- <p>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 <a href="/wiki/doku.php?id=packagers">Packagers team</a>!</p>
- </li>
- <li id="web">
- <h3>Web, tools, systems design &amp; administration</h3>
- <p>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 <a href="/wiki/doku.php?id=sysadmin">system administrators</a>
- to <a href="/wiki/doku.php?id=web">Web designers/developers/integrators</a>.</p>
- </li>
- <li id="mirror">
- <h3>Mirroring</h3>
- <p>Making all Mageia software available requires <a href="http://mirrors.mageia.org/">several mirrors
- around the world</a>, to distribute ISO and installation or update packages.
- If you have some space and bandwidth to share, please <a href="/wiki/doku.php?id=mirrors_policy#how_to_become_a_mirror">see how you can
- become an official Mageia mirror</a>.</p>
- </li>
- <li id="donation">
- <h3><a href="/en/donate/">Donating</a></h3>
- <p>Financial donations help us allocate specific tasks, secure our infrastructure,
- fund events, goodies &amp; transportation.
- <a href="/en/thank-you/">200+ persons already expressed us their trust</a>
- with their money, hardware or other resources.
- We keep a <a href="/en/about/reports/">public record of what we get and
- how we use it</a>.</p>
- </li>
- <hr>
- <li id="data">
- <h3>Data mining</h3>
- <p>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 &amp; visualize it and what that means we can do better,
- get in touch!</p>
- </li>
- <li id="design">
- <h3>Designing, experimenting, revealing the unknown</h3>
- <p>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.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- <hr>
- <h2 id="by-time">Time</h2>
- <p>How much time do you have? and how much do want to commit to Mageia?
- See what you can do:</p>
- <ul id="contrib-time" class="contrib-list">
- <li>
- <h3>A few minutes</h3>
- <ul class="contrib-act">
- <li>Stop by the <a href="http://forums.mageia.org/">forums</a>
- support section and check if you can answer a question.</li>
- <li>Talk about the project around you, on your blog, your Twitter account,
- at your work place.</li>
- <li>If you encounter a bug you can reproduce and document,
- <a href="http://bugs.mageia.org/">submit a bug report</a>.</li>
- <li>Make a <a href="/en/donate/">donation</a>!</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>
- <h3>A few hours</h3>
- <ul class="contrib-act">
- <li>Stop by a Mageia event, like a test day to find, reproduce and resolve bugs.</p>
- <li>Subscribe to a team discussion list and follow what happens there,
- try to see how you can bring something more to it.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>
- <h3>A few weeks or more</h3>
- <ul class="contrib-act">
- <li>Learn about free software, open source collaboration in general,
- and Mageia in particular.</li>
- <li>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.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
- <hr>
- </div>
- </div>
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