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Introducing Ubuntu GNOME Team
One of the things that is often asked is how could new contributors to Ubuntu GNOME help? We need new people to tell us about their opinion and experience with Ubuntu GNOME and the support areas, such as the IRC channels, forums and Wiki. You bring to us a most important view: that of some one new to Ubuntu GNOME. Ubuntu GNOME needs you.
Who are we?
TO BE ADDED
How to contribute ?
Bugs
You found a bug in Ubuntu GNOME and you want to help fixing it ? Let's see how to report a bug.
Translations
You language is not completely supported and you want to help ? Let's go the translations page.
Testing
You like tweaking your system, and find problems ? Please, help the great testing team and go the testing section
Documentation
You want to help people by writing documentation ? Check the documentation page.
Marketing & Press
You are an happy Ubuntu GNOME user, and you want to share it ? Want to make Ubuntu GNOME more famous ? Please go to the pages the Marketing and Press Releases for materials.
Artwork & Design
You like the artwork of Ubuntu GNOME and you want to help ? Let's go to the Artwork page.
Developing, patches, code
You want to create programs and code, improve the applications included in Ubuntu GNOME? Go to the developers page.
How to Join?
There are two types of membership and contributions:
Contributor
Only whenever possible, whenever you have extra spare time and you would like to help Ubuntu GNOME grow bigger and better, you are more than welcome to contribute to Ubuntu GNOME project. We ask for at least one hour per week as the minimum time you can spare but means a lot for us 
All what you need to do is:
Choose which area you would like to contribute to - See this.
Subscribe Ubuntu GNOME Mailing List.
Official Member
To join up as an official member of the Ubuntu GNOME team, please do at least these steps:
Create your Launchpad account, if you do not already have one.
Subscribe to Ubuntu GNOME Mailing List. Also, please make sure to read this because it is very important.
If you do not yet have your own page on the Ubuntu wiki, please create one. If you are not sure how to do this, please read the next steps.
How to create a new Wiki Page
1- Open your browser and type this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/
2- Add the desired name for your Wiki Page. Most of us are using their username on launchpad, Ubuntu Forum, etc. After that, just press Enter.
3- Just click on Create new empty page as shown on this screenshot:
4- Now, start fill in your information that you would like to share with Lubuntu/Ubuntu Community like your launchpad link, email, etc. Introduce yourself and talk about your goals, experience with Lubuntu, etc. All that would be nice. For example, see this
For more information on how to edit your Wiki Page, please have a read on HelpOnEditing
After you create your Launchpad login, don't forget to add your name on the members list and subscribe to the mailing list
Please hang out in the team IRC channel (which can also be used for offtopic-chatter) is #lubuntu-offtopic on irc.freenode.net.
You can also join our Social Networks Pages:
See also - Contact Lubuntu
Teams
Within lubuntu there are a number of Sub Teams
You are the one who is going to decide which one of these areas you can fit in. If you are in doubt, just ask
Devs team: Coding (Packaging, patches, fixing, breaking, development of specific applications...)
Artwork Team: Creation of graphics and artwork (wallpaper, icons...)
Testing team: Test, test, test (QA, ISO testing, SRU testing, bug testing / confirmation)
Documentation team: Support (Write and maintain wiki documentation)
Communication team: Spread the word (Animate social networks, website, blogs, forum...)
Support team: A mix of all the other teams and those who wish to concentrate on the important bit: Support.
Translations Team: Does exactly as its title suggests!
IRC team: IRC keepers (Moderate and help on IRC)
Meetings
We have regular meet ups on the IRC channels, which are #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net and #lxde on irc.oftc.net. The logs from our previous lubuntu meetings along with details of forthcoming ones can be viewed at IRC Meetings. The channel topic on both #lubuntu and #lubuntu-offtopic will say when the next meeting is. As we are all on different time-zones, a lot of discussions about direction take place on the mailing list.
How to get started
This is the most asked question after reading all the above. Assuming you have made your choice of which one of the Sub-Teams of Lubuntu you would like to join. Also, assuming you have already joined Lubuntu Mailing List and did all the steps/requirement mentioned previously, you are good to go. All what you need to do is:
- Send a new email to the mailing list to introduce yourself with a link of your Wiki Page.
Send a request to join one (or more) of the Sub-Teams of Lubuntu that you are interested about and think you fit the most in. The Head of that sub-team will approve your request as soon as he/she will receive it. However, it is strongly recommended to contact the Head of the Sub-Team that you wish to join before to make yourself known
If you have a Social Network Account, join Our Social Networks Areas
Welcome to Lubuntu Team
Contributing to the LXDE project
If you are interest in contributing to LXDE, please visit the LXDE project website, and join the LXDE developers mailing list. More ideas on joining the LXDE project are on the Join LXDE page.