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Everyone can participate in the Xubuntu community on many levels, from simply giving advice to fellow Xubuntu users to becoming a maintainer of core packages. Any contribution, even the smallest, is valued. We welcome everybody to improve Xubuntu and spread Free Software!
If you are of the artistic type, you can take part in making the Xubuntu desktop look better by contributing artwork and helping design the various visual aspects of Xubuntu.
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The development team is responsible for fixing bugs, packaging software, maintaining metapackages and occasionally writing new features or software.
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Working with the QA team you get to work with one of the most crucial parts of each Xubuntu release – making sure everything works as expected.
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Like any open source software, Xubuntu needs volunteers to give user support and advocate Xubuntu both online and locally.
{%- endcapture -%} {%- include icon-content.html icon="team_support" content=support -%}The main communication channels for Xubuntu development are the IRC and Matrix channels #xubuntu-devel, the Xubuntu-devel mailing list, and the Telegram group. The Xubuntu team also runs community meetings more or less regularly.
IRC Matrix Mailing list Telegram
Also see the Contact page in the Xubuntu wiki for the list of current leaders and other developer-related contact information.
The Xubuntu contributor documentation is a compilation of guides that help keep the project in the right general direction and describes the processes the community use. Finally, the last part of the documentation instructs contributors to perform certain tasks.