Author: robweir
Date: Mon Nov 5 15:44:07 2012
New Revision: 1405847
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1405847&view=rev
Log:
Update "get involved" to mention orientiation modules as well
Modified:
incubator/ooo/site/trunk/content/openofficeorg/get-involved.mdtext
Modified: incubator/ooo/site/trunk/content/openofficeorg/get-involved.mdtext
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ooo/site/trunk/content/openofficeorg/get-involved.mdtext?rev=1405847&r1=1405846&r2=1405847&view=diff
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--- incubator/ooo/site/trunk/content/openofficeorg/get-involved.mdtext
(original)
+++ incubator/ooo/site/trunk/content/openofficeorg/get-involved.mdtext Mon Nov
5 15:44:07 2012
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Title: Get Involved
+Title: Get Involved
Notice: Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
distributed with this work for additional information
@@ -42,22 +42,23 @@ the community. The project team and the
therefore welcome and encourage participation, and attempt to make it
as easy as possible for people to get involved.
-We maintain a list of specific areas where we need volunteers on our [Help
Wanted] [10] page of the wiki.
-## Mailing lists
+## How to get started
-Your first engagement with the project should be to subscribe to our
-[mailing lists][11].
+OpenOffice is a large, complex open source project, with a project culture
developed over many years as an
+independent, combined with our experience at Apache.
+If you are familiar with Apache-style open source
+development then you might just jump in. Subscribe to a relevant project
[mailing list](http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html)
+and introduce yourself. We'll help you get started.
+
+If, however, you are new to Apache, or want a more methodical approach to
getting started, then we have a set
+of graduated [New Volunteer Orientation
Modules](http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/orientation/index.html)
designed
+for new volunteers that takes you through a number of background topics
related to Apache OpenOffice and how
+we do things.
+
+Which path you take is up to you and is a matter of personal preference. You
can even do both.
+
+We also maintain a list of specific areas where we need volunteers on our
+[Help
Wanted](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Help+Wanted) page
of the wiki.
- [1]: mailto://[email protected]
- [2]: mailto://[email protected]
- [3]: mailto:[email protected]
- [4]: http://markmail.org/search/+list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-dev
- [5]: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/
- [6]: mailto:[email protected]
- [7]: mailto:[email protected]
- [8]: http://markmail.org/search/+list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-commits
- [9]: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-commits/
- [10]: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Help+Wanted
- [11]:/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html
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