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OpenNebula Community Overview

The OpenNebula community consists of individuals, teams and organizations working to build the best open source cloud technology. There are several ways that you can get involved and contribute to the community from giving advice and technical support to other users, to developing components and tools around the OpenNebula core, so check it out and get started! * [[#Use OpenNebula and Give us Feedback|Use OpenNebula and Give us Feedback]] * [[#Spread Our Word|Spread Our Word]] * [[#Contribute to OpenNebula Development|Contribute to OpenNebula Development]] * [[#Institutional Involvement|Institutional Involvement]] {{ :opennebulaconf-collage.png }} ====== Use OpenNebula and Give us Feedback ====== Using the last stable release of the technology, asking questions, providing suggestions or criticism, being active with the discussions on the mailing list, answering other user questions, you become part of the growing OpenNebula community. Reporting code and documentation bugs, and making feature requests are critical parts of the project. Your feedback can strongly drive the technology! * Join our [[:community:mailinglists|user mailing list]] * [[:software:software|Download last stable release]] * Join us on [[http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=2292500|LinkedIn]], [[http://twitter.com/opennebula|Twitter]], [[http://www.facebook.com/pages/OpenNebula/131479102555?ref=search&sid=542023952.595794808..1|Facebook]] and our [[feed://blog.opennebula.org/?feed=rss2|Blog]] * [[http://blog.opennebula.org/?page_id=4|Contribute experiences or use cases to our blog]] * [[:community:contribute|Report bugs]] * [[:community:contribute|Request features]] * [[https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/one/|Help us translate our web-based user interfaces]] * [[http://marketplace.c12g.com/appliance|Share your virtual appliances with other users]] * [[:addons:catalog|Use the OpenNebula Add-ons]] ====== Spread Our Word ====== You can help spread the word about OpenNebula and open source cloud computing. * Join our [[:community:mailinglists|community discuss mailing list]] * Give [[:community:outreach|courses and presentations about OpenNebula]] * Help recruit community and [[:community:ecosystem|ecosystem]] contributors * Distribute OpenNebula [[http://blog.opennebula.org|posts]] and [[https://twitter.com/opennebula|tweets]] * Mentor people in your area of expertise * Provide help and support on the [[:community:mailinglists|mailing lists]] and [[:community:irc|IRC channels]] * Create tutorials * Start an [[:community:usergroups|OpenNebula User Group]] * Speak at [[http://www.OpenNebulaConf.com|OpenNebulaConf]] We will be very happy to provide you with all the material that you would need to prepare your presentation or training event. See the [[:community:tutorials|material available online]]. ====== Contribute to OpenNebula Development ====== You can help with the development of the technology by using and testing the development version of the technology and providing patches for bugfixes, minor enhancements and documentation. * Join our [[:community:mailinglists|developers mailing list]] * [[http://dev.opennebula.org|Sign up in our development infrastructure]] * [[:software:software|Download and test the last development release]] * [[:community:contribute|Checkout the latest code]] * [[:community:contribute|Create bug patches]] * [[:community:contribute|Create feature patches]] * [[:community:contribute|Contribute new functionality]] * [[http://blog.opennebula.org/?page_id=4|Contribute how-tos to our blog]] * [[http://wiki.opennebula.org/|Contribute to the community Wiki]] * Maintain packages for your favorite distribution * [[:addons:create|Make new Add-ons]] * [[:addons:contribute|Contribute to Add-ons]] * [[:community:ecosystem|Submit a new component to the ecosystem]] OpenNebula recognizes contributions from volunteers by adding their names to the list of contributors in the release notes for each version and in the [[http://dev.opennebula.org|development infrastructure]]. ====== Institutional Involvement ====== You can support the project by [[support:fundafeature|funding the features you need]].