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Hi All,
I introduced myself in other posts but here a one liner again, linux user and and sys eng. for 20+ years, had a lot of fun in with 4 of the main distros over the years, now yes I came here from the Lunduke wave and yes I plan to stay here for long time, so far OMlx and the community has been great.

I’ve only been here for less than a week, and I still have a lot of “RTFM” to do about the distro and before just adding code and incurring in maybe not the best practices for the distro, I like to get to know the way things move around and are handle, but that does not mean there are not ways to start helping and supporting others.

Now with that said, I would like to start helping with any documentation that needs to be created, pending, missing updates, etc., Also if there is anything in spanish support or documentation translation( which now days can be done with tools), please tag me.

I hope with small contributions like documentation can help solve problems for new users and advance users as well, so if there is any change to get on this please let me know. I know there are other communication channels but for now I can keep track of this post.

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Welcome @daemonx.

If you go to the “Big Fat Warning” above and scroll down through that information there is “How to contribute user’s documentation”. Perhaps that will help. Joining OpenMandriva OM-Chat and participating there may be a way to get a handle on what needs doing that you would want to do.

OM Contributors communicate on OpenMandriva OM-Chat. Typically we are not a strict group but keep in mind that people there are working.

Helping users on this forum and OpenMandriva Chat would be a big help and should give one some ideas on things users would benefit from,

Aside: This topic of how to get people started helping needs some thought and maybe some enhancements. :thinking:

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At the risk of posting something you have already seen this just shows a template I created for new users. I have to insert this manually (as far as I know) so can not keep up with the influx of very much welcome new users.

Welcome @daemonx to OpenMandriva and our forum. This forum is for users of OpenMandriva Linux operating systems.

OpenMandriva Forums are primarily users helping other users.

You are welcome to talk to our developers at OpenMandriva Chat.

Users with a problem need to read How to get better results when posting about problems before reporting any issue or problem. The article is not too long and Do Read.

When a new user has an issue please look in the documentation for OMLx. OpenMandriva wiki, Forum Resources guide and the “Search” function of the forum.

If you don’t find what you are looking for, try an Internet search. One can find out a lot from documentation or forum posts at other Linux distros. If user finds something written for another distro but you have some doubt ask at OpenMandriva Chat.

For serious technical issues and package/feature requests please file a bug report here.

Note: We are a small group. All the contributors and developers here are unpaid volunteers.
You can make OpenMandriva grow and improve by getting involved

Any help with testing would be appreciated whether one is technically proficient or a very non-technical user. The more people and more hardware we can get involved the better we can make OMLx releases and packaging. We do a lot of testing in VM’s as well. Developers tend to use Qemu, most user level testers use VirtualBox.

Some hopefully helpful suggestions:

We request that problems reported in forum or in a bug report be limited to one problem per thread or report.

We suggest that if your problem reported in the forum or on OM-Chat is not resolved in a few days to please file a proper bug report.

If you have not already done so scroll thru the “Big Fat Warning” at the top of this page and read the information or use the links provided.

Before reporting any problem please read this.

We are simply and respectfully trying to get people to be aware that as a very small group we are volunteering, unpaid, our time, knowledge, ect, to help you.

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got it, thanks @ben79, I start with translations and documentation for now! will join the chat aswell!

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For translations @rugyada or ruru on OM-Chat is the best person to talk. She is the best person to talk to for a lot of things in line with how you would like to contribute.

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I agree. As with anything else, everything can be improved. We’ll do, at our best.

https://www.transifex.com/openmandriva/public/

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