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Hello everyone,

I am really wanting to get involved in the LMDE project however possible. I've read the page about getting involved but im not sure where to go from there. I guess im asking how to get started in the project. Any insight is greatly appreciated.

thanks for the time

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It helps to know what experience you have and what area you want to get into Technical skills like programming, package building, testing, those kind of things. Becoming active on the LMDE forums is a good first step:

• help others solve their problems;
• write tutorials/howto's here or on the community website;
• help test new update packs ahead of time by switching to the "incoming" repo (see here, and the LMDE FAQ, for more info).

Thanks for the response. I have some experience building packages and I have reported bugs in the past. I have somewhat limited programming experience. I am currently studying computer science and I see myself learning a lot of programming in the near future. I enjoy testing and I am currently pointing to the incoming repos. I am trying to post more and answer questions on the forums as of late and I also enjoy making artwork. Maybe that would be a good way to start getting into the project more?

thanks again

I know more testers on incoming are always welcome, especially if you have a bit tenacity to also try and resolve/workaround the problems you find. Contributing there would be much appreciated I think

There is also an online chat for Linux Mint, you may want to hang out there also. Just open XChat from the menu and you will be automatically connected to #linuxmint-chat (general chat) and #linuxmint-debian (support with other LMDE users).

As for programming, if you know JavaScript, Cinnamon (Gnome 3 Shell fork, developed by the Linux Mint team) will be coming to LMDE soon also. Cinnamon is heavily under development and there is a call out for developers to work on applets and extensions to give it more functionality. There are a lot of request from users on new functionality, like here (that one would be a good project to get started with, as you can take the existing Gnome applet and rewrite it to a Cinnamon applet).

More on programming: you can also help developing MATE (if you don't mind an oldschool desktop which is a Gnome 2 fork ), or try porting some apps from Ubuntu (for example, jockey-gtk).