Joining the ADempiere Community

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If you are reading this, you are already part of our community.

ADempiere is a open-source project using commons-based peer-production methods. Organized as a bazaar of Citizens, the project is governed by Technical, Functional and Community Council Teams. The intellectual property of the community is protected by the ADempiere Foundation, a non-profit group which provides legal and financial support to the community.

The project follows a Open Source philosophy with a 3-line principle of:

• Information Is Free
• People Are Not
• Contributors Are Priceless

To join our efforts all you have to do is get involved.

• Learn
  • Adopt our Etiquette and learn about our Community Governance Structure and, specifically, our Behaviour Guidelines.
  • Read this wiki
  • Read Getting Involved in QA
  • Visit the Summary page at Sourceforge. Check out the forums.

• Connect
  • Follow us on Twitter and Identi.ca
  • Connect with us via Internet-Relay Chat (IRC Channel) either via mIRC or XChat at irc.freenode.net, Channel Room - #adempiere. If you are Spanish speaker you can join #adempiere-es. Also check out the Functional Manual in Spanish by Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Colombia. If you are French speaker you can join #adempiere-fr. Use this web tool or web tool2 to access the chat room if unable to use mIRC or XChat
  • Visit the ADempiere Virtual Conference Room
  • Join source forge and let your voice be heard in the forums.

• Contribute
  • Create a wiki account and let the tech-writer in you come alive.
  • Help test the software.
  • Fix a bug. Check out Open tasks, Bugs, Feature Requests, Support Requests Choose a bug and solve it, as a good initiation to ADempiere source code and development process.
  • Get involved in Bug Triage or ADempiere Bug Day

• Donations
  • If you wish to donate money, please do so through donation to the ADempiere Foundation, our non-profit organization based in Berlin, via its PayPal account: donation@adempiere.de.