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Author: buildbot
Date: Thu Nov 13 11:00:18 2014
New Revision: 929044

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+<h1 id="join-the-apache-directory-community">Join the Apache Directory Community</h1>
+<p>First of all, a big <strong>thank you</strong> from us for evaluating and/or using our products. We truly appreciate it. Our products exist, and continue to improve thanks to you. 
+But you can help us and yourself more!</p>
+<p>As we are a community of volunteers working with the guidelines and policies of the Apache Software Foundation (the Apache Way) in mind, we welcome any kind of input you can provide to get better products. 
+These contributions, whether you think of reporting bugs, supplying code enhancements, improvements to our documentation, answering questions in our mailing lists or anywhere else are valuable to us. Because these will help us in helping you.</p>
+<p>You can also consider donating in other ways to the Apache Software Foundation. Look for more information on that subject at this pages: <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html">resource donation</a> or <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html">sponsorship program</a>.</p>
+<p>So, you consider contributing to our project. But how do you go about achieving this?
+Well, it is as easy as pie.
+To begin with, we suggest you to subscribe to the <a href="mailing-lists-and-irc.html">Directory Mailing Lists &amp; IRC</a> (follow the link for information on how to subscribe and to access the mail list archives). Listen-in for a while, to see how others make contributions.</p>
+<p>Then you can :</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Answer questions posted to the mailing lists.</li>
+<li>Contribute to the FAQ or Wiki.</li>
+<li>Contribute other documentation patches, either for the website or for the Apache Directory user documentation.</li>
+<li>Investigate bugs that have been reported and provide patches where appropriate.</li>
+<li>Help with development for the next release of the Directory project and subprojects.</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="what-we-are-looking-for">What we are looking for</h2>
+<ul>
+<li>Source code and fixes contributions</li>
+<li>Documentation assistance</li>
+<li>Product and feature suggestions</li>
+<li>Detailed and constructive feedback</li>
+<li>Articles and white papers</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="how-do-i-contribute">How do I contribute</h2>
+<ul>
+<li>To discuss Apache Directory topics check out the <a href="mailing-lists-and-irc.html">mailing lists</a>.</li>
+<li>Informal discussion also occurs on the <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/apache-directory">#apache-directory</a> Users IRC channel or on the <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/apache-directory-dev">#apache-directory-dev</a> Developers IRC channel on <a href="http://freenode.net">freenode.net</a>.</li>
+<li>Bugs and other issues can be posted on the project <a href="issue-tracking.html">issue tracking system</a>.</li>
+</ul>