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= How can I help with Ubuntu? =

Many people who enjoy using Ubuntu would like to give back and improve the distribution. I have collected a checklist of how a motivated person could help the Ubuntu community based on proficiency.

== Beginner ==
 *[[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat|IRC]] Presence
 *Mailing List presence - See all [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/|Ubuntu Mailing Lists]], [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MailingListFAQs|FAQ]] and [[https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp|Launchpad Mailing List Help]]
 *[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuForums|Forum]] Presence
 *Join a [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Teams|Teams]]
 *Join a Local Community "[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams|LoCo]]" Ubuntu user group
 *[[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UserDocumentation|Reporting bugs]] - See article [[http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html|"How to report bugs efficiently"]]

== Intermediary ==
 *[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage|Bug Triage]] and Testing - See [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/EasyTasks| Easy Bug Tasks]]
 *Stale bug checking/updating
 *Creating new (and updating untouched) [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UserDocumentation|documentation]]
 *[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations|Translations]]
 *[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/AdoptPackage|Adopt a package]]
 *Distribution [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing|Testing]] and [[http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/|Test cases]]
 *Version tracking and synchronization requesting

== Advanced ==
 *[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/PatchTesting|Patch testing]], [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Patches|review]] and notifying upstream of patches
 *Bug [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Assignment|assignment/ownership]]
 *Bug [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToFix|fixing]]
 *Upstream updating of changes we make, directions we are taking, release schedule notifying
 *Creating a [[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas|PPA]] with the latest stable/experimental upstream version of a package - See [[https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA|PPA Help]]

Other ways of helping can be found at the [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Signpost/Answers|Signpost]] and the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Upstream/Contacts|Upstream Contacts]] wiki pages.