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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 ? TO BE ADDED
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.
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 TO BE ADDED.
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 Ubuntu GNOME/Ubuntu Community like your launchpad link, email, etc. Introduce yourself and talk about your goals, experience with Ubuntu GNOME, 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, also join our IRC channel is #ubuntu-gnome on irc.freenode.net.
You can also join our Social Networks Pages:
See also - Contact Ubuntu GNOME
How to get started
- Send a new email to the mailing list to introduce yourself with a link of your Wiki Page.
If you have a Social Network Account, join Our Social Networks Areas
Welcome to Ubuntu GNOME Team
Contributing to the GNOME project
If you are interest in contributing to GNOME, please visit the GNOME project website.