You can make Foswiki better!

We are a fresh, inspired and open group of people, that try to be as welcoming as possible for new community members. We are a small group. That is why the value to the project of your input and energy cannot be underestimated.

We need your expertise

We especially need:

• Programmers mainly in Perl and Javascript
• Copywriters
• Technical documenters and editors
• Translators to other languages
• Marketeers
• Visual Designers
• User Experience Design and Usability
• Quality Assurance (Testing, Reporting bugs, ...) types: download a nightly build and help validate the trunk for problems by running test cases and other testing
• Community organisers
• your views and desires...

How else can you help?

• Cheer us up with a short motivation mail - we are happy for every feedback!
• Spread the word: write e-mails and blog posts
• Or, if you are really keen, donate hardware, infrastructure, money to get us started
• Write a success story about your success with Foswiki and tell us about it.
• Say on Ohloh that you use Foswiki.

Where to start?

First introduce yourself...

• Register on this site (if you haven't done so), and optionally write a short piece who you are on your personal user page.

Get to know us...

• Subscribe to our mailing list foswiki-discuss to introduce yourself to the others, and to know what goes on. This list is archived on n2.nabble.com.
• Join our daily conversations in our IRC channel #foswiki

Do you like the way we work here?

• If you know where to start, join one of the TaskTeams
• If you are still looking around, or need some time, or don't want to tie yourself down just now, send us your name together with a line what you would like to do.

Would you like to offer help?

Send us an e-mail with a short statement, what you could do so we know you are interested in contributing to Foswiki. We will help you to get in touch ... great!

What active community members do

• They put their names in the web notify topics to receive mails with topic changes (Home, Community, Development, Extensions, Support, Tasks) or subscribe to our RSS-feeds (Home, Community, Development, Extensions, Support, Tasks).
• They talk to each other and help new users "live" on IRC. They look at our chats and stay in touch.
• They monitor all changes in all webs and help in refactoring new wiki pages.
• They create new tasks about the software, the website, our marketing efforts and other todos.
• Perform community promotion work. Come on, it's easy and costs nothing but very little time.
• Create a video on your extension or a basic Foswiki feature in your language and post it in our collection on FoswikiVideos.

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As soon as you have accomplished your first results, we encourage you to create a history of your community-work.