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Portal:How to participate

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Welcome to the How to participate Portal edit

Whether you're an experienced Linux developer or an end user just getting started with Linux, there are many ways for you to participate in the openSUSE project. Join a forum to get help or help others with openSUSE, find and report bugs, review the documentation, send your wish list for new packages and features, create and submit patches, or find other creative ways to contribute.

Whatever you do, take a few minutes to discuss openSUSE with other users and become an active member of the openSUSE community. For most activities a login is needed to enjoy all the fun. You might wish to create a user page and share some useful information or interests about you with others. Here's a short guide how to do this.


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Participate in openSUSE

Everyone can be a part of openSUSE, even without technical skills. You don't have to be a programmer or packager. Being a community member just means you care about openSUSE!

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  • Be part of the openSUSE Community
    See where other openSUSE community members are located world-wide, get to know some People of openSUSE, find local openSUSE user groups, celebrate releases, learn about the governance structure and more. Follow openSUSE news on our news site and see what our developers are up to on Planet openSUSE!
  • Discuss openSUSE and help other users
    There are several active communities where you can discuss what is going on in openSUSE and help out other openSUSE users. We have mailing lists, IRC channels and forums. Please have a look at the communication channels for an overview.
  • Suggest New Features or Software
    Visit openFATE our Feature- and Requirements Management System. Here you can get a sorted overview of things happening in upcoming products, follow and participate on the discussion by adding comments or work on features for the next product generation (version) and help to make openSUSE an even better Linux distribution.
  • Spread the word
    Be sure to spread the word on openSUSE and help others to benefit from it too! openSUSE offers a great Linux distribution and many other technologies like our build service and SUSE Studio which can help home users as well as sys admins and developers to get work done and have fun. Blog about openSUSE, tell your friends and family and help them install it! If you are serious about helping us get the word out, see Spread the word.


Additional information: Community – Communicate – openFATE – Teams


Document it

Write how-to, documentation, and much more!

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  • Be part of the Wiki team
    This page is built with MediaWiki. The concept of a Wiki is that anybody may add and modify content. As long as you edit anything on the wiki you are de facto member of the Wiki team. Please see the Wiki team page if you want to contribute to the Wiki. On Editing help, find a quick tutorial if you're unfamiliar with Wikis. Please make sure that you follow the Wiki style guidelines. The openSUSE project is currently running wikis in different languages. You can find here the available language teams. You may also like to join one of this language teams. For more information about translation and localization please look at the Translation guidelines howto to localize a wiki.
  • Review or Write Documentation, Manuals, and Articles
    Visit the documentation portal to contribute or read articles and manuals. If you've got instructions, solutions to common problems, neat tips and tricks, or just a good way to explain something, we'd love to hear from you.
  • Improve the DocBook manuals
    The wiki is not enough. Our manuals are written in NovDoc XML, a simplified subset of DocBook. The XML sources for the manuals are hosted on an SVN server. Generating books from the XML sources is done with the susedoc build environment, which is developed and maintained by the Documentation team as well. Make contact.
  • Improve Hardware Compatibility List
    Hardware support provides challenges to any distribution of Linux. The Hardware database pages are used by the openSUSE community to record the compatibility of various hardware and full systems with openSUSE. Share your experience by adding your hardware, especially if you had some issue that you overcame.


Additional information: Wiki team – Wiki translation – Documentation team – Hardware database


Develop it

Help us develop our distribution or our infrastructure.

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  • Design openSUSE Artwork
    Interested in contributing to the look and feel of openSUSE? Visit the Artwork Pixel pool to show off your designs and help influence the next version of openSUSE's artwork.
  • Localize openSUSE Specific Applications
    Translations of YaST2 and other applications specific to openSUSE.
    For KDE, GNOME and different applications that don't belong to either of two, it is possible to find contributors in other Linux communities, but YaST and Co are our responsibility. Read more about it on i18n.opensuse.org.
  • Test openSUSE and Report Bugs
    You can help improve openSUSE by finding and reporting bugs. Our bug tracking system, Bugzilla, is used for all openSUSE/SUSE Linux products. If you have never written a bug report, please refer to Bug reporting FAQ to learn what kinds of information make the report most useful. You are welcome to participate in our Bug day events. In addition to the current release, you can also test our regularly updated development version at Factory which will result in the next openSUSE version.
  • Start with a Junior Job
    Junior jobs are issues that are easy to do such as basic bug fixes, package updates or the creation of a test case. Every maintainer sometimes has these. It is nice to have them fixed but usually maintainers are too busy or want to reserve them for someone who wants to learn. These tasks are a great opportunity to start for community members who want to contribute, but don't know how. The maintainers are very willing to help you learn!
  • Screen openFATE Features
    You can assure best outcome for the openSUSE distribution by reviewing the proposed Features for the next product generation to keep openFATE as efficient as possible.
  • Package Applications
    Contrib is the universal openSUSE repository for third-party packages. Packaging describes the process of getting your packaged application into the next release. For more information about getting source code and building your own packages, read the openSUSE Build Tutorial.
  • Develop Patches
    The most obvious way for programmers to participate in the development of openSUSE is to post a patch as a suggested solution to an existing bug in Bugzilla. Each package has a maintainer, who will contact you to discuss your proposed solution. You may want to join one of our development mailing lists before you start coding in order to discuss your plans and coordinate with other developers.
  • Work on a Google Summer of Code project
    There are several areas in and around openSUSE which offer the opportunity to do a Google Summer of Code project. If you are a student, you can participate by developing one of the open source projects described here (or propose an idea of your own!) and earn money, while being mentored by an experienced member of the openSUSE community.
  • Build your own openSUSE based distribution
    You can quite easily build your own openSUSE based distro using SUSE Studio or OBS and KIWI. Developing a specialized openSUSE version, like openSUSE Medical which caters to a specific target group is something we'd love to see you do!


Additional information: Artwork pixel pool – Localization team – Testing Core team – Features screening team – Junior jobs – Summer of Code


Spread it

Be the voice of the openSUSE community!

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  • Become an Ambassador
    The openSUSE Community is made up of helpful and enthusiastic people, and our ambassadors are the most friendly, helpful, and enthusiastic of all. As an openSUSE Ambassador, you will play a part in helping the openSUSE Project reach new users and new contributors.
  • Be part of the Marketing team
    Publicize community events and meetings to maximize turnout and participation, create artwork, banners and other material that can be reused for openSUSE, help organize launch parties or local events, and much more. In other words : be part of the Marketing team and promote openSUSE all around you!
  • Write the Newsletters
    Become an editor of the weekly openSUSE newsletter, or translate it into your own language and share the last information about openSUSE!
  • Discover openSUSE people
    Vote whom do you want to see interviewed soon for the People of openSUSE series.


Additional information: Ambassadors – Marketing team – Weekly News team – People of openSUSE


Lead it

Actively influence the distribution.

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  • Become an openSUSE member
    openSUSE, being an open and global community project, has contributors and volunteers from all over the world. "openSUSE Members" are specifically distinguished contributors who have brought a continued and substantial contribution to the openSUSE project. So, everything above can qualify for the openSUSE membership status.
  • Be a focal point of any projects development
    The openSUSE community need volunteers to lead the projects, give shape, define tasks, be a focal point of a project development. Open source development is based on a volunteers that create loose groups bound with common interest, but the successful projects have core group of individuals that give direction to the project.
  • Participate in openSUSE project meetings
    The openSUSE community meets bi-weekly in IRC to discuss the project, its parts, status of ongoing tasks, its development direction the wiki etc. Please have a look at the meetings schedule for dates of upcoming meetings.
  • Explore Career Opportunities
    SUSE has several open positions for qualified personnel who want to join the openSUSE team. Have a look at our career pages for more information.


Additional information: Members – Teams – Meetings

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