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What skills are necessary?
 
  
Any skill is useful for the openSUSE project.
 
 
If you are a developer of any kind, we will find something for you to do.
 
Even if you think that you have no Linux skills you can still help. You can tell us if and how you understand the wiki pages, or more precisely, we would like to know what pages you don't understand. Thanks to the insights of new users we can continuously enhance readability of the wiki. Visit Communicate to learn how to contact us.
 
 
If, on a top of that, you can write, you are invaluable. We need a lot of articles. There are thousands of Linux programs around, and more are released every day. In addition, new versions of existing applications are released. There is need for a lot of hands to write about them and to keep reviews current.
 
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Be part of the Wiki Team
 
 
As long as you edit anything on the wiki you are de facto member of the Wiki Team.
 
 
To make edits, you need to log in to the wiki. In order to do this, you will need to open an account. The information that Novell requires for opening an account is very limited and subject to the Novell privacy policy.
 
 
After you log in, you will see a toolbar at the top of the page. The toolbar is visible on each page you open while you are logged in. You will see a link in the toolbar that is labeled with your username. This takes you to your "personal page". Use this page to introduce yourself, and don't be shy. Write a word or two about your interests, especially those related to openSUSE and Linux. If nothing else, tell us how you learned about openSUSE.
 
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Help Other Users
 
 
There are several active communities that help all levels of openSUSE users. Please have a look at Communicate for an overview.
 
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Suggest New Features or Software
 
 
Visit the Wishlists page and pick a category where you can add your suggestion. You can suggest a new application in a special Package Wishlist. Please edit the table there and add your wishes. Only software with an OSI-compliant open-source license will be added to the openSUSE project.
 
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Improve or Localize a Wiki
 
 
This page is built with MediaWiki. The concept of a Wiki is that anybody may add and modify content. Please see the openSUSE Wiki Project page if you want to contribute to our Wiki. On wiki help, find a quick tutorial if you're unfamiliar with Wikis. Please make sure that you follow the style guide. For more information about translation and localization please look at the translation guide-how to localize a wiki.
 
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Review or Write Documentation, Manuals, and Articles
 
 
Visit the End-User Documentation page 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.
 
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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.
 
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Localize openSUSE specific applications
 
 
Translations of YaST2, ZMD 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 ZMD, are our responsibility. Read more about it http://i18n.opensuse.org.
 
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Develop Patches and Packages
 
 
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.
 
 
For more information about getting source code and building your own packages, read the openSUSE Build Tutorial.
 
 
If you would like to build your own applications on openSUSE, read the openSUSE build tutorial to learn how to package your own software.
 

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