DummyGuideToContributing

The Dummies Guide to Contributing to FOSS..

(This guide is inspired from the 'Dummy' series of books!..

This is a quick guide to those who have just been initiated to FOSS. If you are already a FOSS contributor then contribute to this guide!

So to begin with assuming you just came in to the FOSS world through one of the following means

• Read an article/news/book/webpage/email
• Got a Linux CD with some magazine
• Attended some foss event like - FOSS.IN/Freedel/LUG organized meet
• Heard an inspiring speaker on FOSS & its benefits
• Were fed up rebooting your windows & the virus infections.. so switched to gnulinux
• Your friendly neighbourhood geek baptised you..

.. so on..

Since you are reading this I assume, you know whats is a user & a contributor.. but still to define it clearly..

• A user is someone who just uses
• Occasionally asks questions on lists, chat or mails to get his/her problems solved.
• Just does only the above two!!

A Contributor is one

• Is a user ... well you can never really contribute for/to something which you never use/used.
• Helps others users with what he/she learned.
• Contributes to FOSS - now this is what this guide is about.