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HOWTO contribute

Contributing to ProjectNews is easy but depends on your skills and the amount of time you can spare.

Send interesting news

The easiest way to help us is to inform us about interesting things happening in the Debian universe. Debian is quite a big project, and we don't have the manpower to monitor every mailing list, blog, news site for content we might want to add to our ProjectNews. So tell us, if you noticed something interesting happening. You can usually do this by sending an E-Mail to debian-publicity@lists.debian.org .

What you should send

Generally speaking: Everything which might have an noticeable impact on the Debian Project at large and its user base is special.

Some ideas:

Things you don't need to report

Of course the above list is far from being complete. We would especially like to point out, that we can't monitor other media, web sites, blogs and everything else. So it's very valuable to report anything you think fitting to the ProjectNews to our mailing lists debian-publicity@lists.debian.org .

Keep in mind, that one of the main purposes from our side, beside keeping our users informed, is to show them that

Help by native speakers

Currently the main editor is not a native English speaker. He knows it, and you probably have noticed it, too. So one thing you can help as a native speaker is to fix his en_DE to proper English. The issues are drafted in a subversion repository. Details on how to access is using a subversion client are listed bellow in the "Becoming an editor yourself" part. But even if you are unfamiliar with that, you can always download the current issue, review that and mail comments to the debian-publicity mailing list. We would prefer to receive your changes as diff or wdiff, if possible: Just make a copy of the downloaded file, edit it, and send us the output of diff <oldfile> <newfile>.

Becoming an editor yourself

If you want to contribute directly and want to add small articles for the ProjectNews yourself, feel free to join the team:

Accesing the subversion repository

Before accessing the subversion repository, you might want to read ?Setting up SSH the first time to use the subversion repository on alioth more conveniently.