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# Contributions Welcome!
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The maintainers of this Copyleft Guide project encourage contribution from
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the community. Part of the impetus for this project was to create a
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community around a "copyleft codebase" for information about copyleft. In
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other words, this project is a tutorial project about Copyleft that is like a
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Free Software project.
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## Who Is In Charge?
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Currently, [Bradley M. Kuhn](http://ebb.org/bkuhn/) is the editor-in-chief of
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this Guide project. However, many other contributors have given patches and
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improvements to the text. Review the
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[commit log in the Git repository](https://gitorious.org/copyleft-org/tutorial/commits/master)
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for more details on who has committed to the project.
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## How Do I Get Involved?
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The Guide is maintained in a distributed version control system called
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[Git](http://git-scm.com/). Currently, the project utilizes the services of
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a Git hosting website called [Gitorious](https://gitorious.org). Those who
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are comfortable with Gitorious can submit
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[merge requests on copyleft.org's gitorious site](https://gitorious.org/copyleft-org/tutorial/merge_requests).
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See the section "Merge Request and Patch Workflow" below for more information
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on the details of doing that.
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However, the editor-in-chief do not want lack of Git and/or LaTeX knowledge
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to create an entry barrier for potential contributors. Therefore, the
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editor-in-chief happily accepts contributions and ideas via the following
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means:
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* Patches posted to
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[the mailing list](http://lists.copyleft.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss).
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* New sections of text or simply ideas and input emailed to
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[the mailing list](http://lists.copyleft.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss).
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* Ideas and suggestions mentioned on the
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[irc channel #copyleft on freenode](irc://irc.freenode.net/#copyleft).
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Please, do not worry if your patches or new sections of text are not properly
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formatted as patches and/or are not formatted in LaTeX properly. Indeed,
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feel free to offer patches that break LaTeX formatting. If the content is
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good, the editor-in-chief or someone else will format your contribution
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properly for LaTeX.
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Note: by submitting contributions via any of these means, you agree to the
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"Author's Certificate of Origin" (see below).
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## How Do I Figure Out What To Contribute?
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If you're looking for something to fix, just grep the *.tex files for "FIXME"
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and you'll find plenty. Many of them are simple and easy to do. Some of
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them are writing, and some of them are formatting-related.
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There is also a [TODO list on the website](https://copyleft.org/todo/), which
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are mostly related to formatting, layout and infrastructure, but if you'd
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like to help there, such help is also welcome.
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