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The Maemo community is an active one, and there are lots of areas to get involved and help out. This is an overview of a few of those areas and how to get involved. As you will get more involved, you will see your [[karma]] level rise, and your name will climb the [http://maemo.org/profile/list Maemo community karma list].

== maemo.org ==

There are many ways to get involved with maemo.org and its development.

=== maemo.org content ===

Once you create a [http://maemo.org/profile Maemo profile] you will be able to add comments to your favourite products and rate them, you will be able to favourite or bury [http://planet.maemo.org blog posts] and [http://maemo.org/news maemo.org news items], and you will be able to edit pages in [[Main Page | the wiki]].

=== Bugzilla ===

[http://bugs.maemo.org/ Bugzilla] is maemo.org's bug tracker. The [[Bugsquad]] is the place to go to get involved there. They're always looking for people to help out triaging incoming bugs, and keeping tabs on existing ones.

=== Brainstorm ===

[http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/ Brainstorm] is where proposals for enhancements, new features, new applications etc can be put to the community for discussion.  All community members can post their ideas here, and developers are encouraged to look for ones they could help out with.  For more information on the Brainstorm process see [[Brainstorm|Brainstorm Intro]].

=== Wiki ===

The wiki is always in need of more help and the [[Wiki gardeners]] is an excellent place to start if you're looking for areas to help out. If you're not looking for too much structure, you'll likely find small typos and grammatical errors to fix while browsing around. New articles are always highly appreciated!

=== API documentation ===

Most of [http://maemo.org/development/sdks/maemo_5_api_documentation/ Maemo's API documentation] is available in source format along with the source code. Most of the source code for Maemo-specific components is available via [http://maemo.gitorious.org Gitorious].

For example, the [http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/5.0-final/libhildondesktop/ libhildondesktop] API documentation is generated using [http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk-doc-manual/stable/documenting_symbols.html.en_GB gtk-doc] from comments in the source code, which is [http://maemo.gitorious.org/fremantle-hildon-desktop/libhildondesktop available via Gitorious].

To get a copy of the source code, clone the Gitorious module, and make changes to the relevant comments in the source code - for example, the symbol [http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/5.0-final/libhildondesktop/HDHomePluginItem.html#hd-home-plugin-item-heartbeat-signal-add hd-home-plugin-item-heartbeat-signal-add] is documented (at the time of writing) between line 564 and line 585 in the file [http://maemo.gitorious.org/fremantle-hildon-desktop/libhildondesktop/blobs/master/libhildondesktop/hd-home-plugin-item.c hd-home-plugin-item.c].

To propose a change to API documentation, submit your proposed change as a patch (in the diff -u format) to a relevant bug in [http://bugs.maemo.org Bugzilla], and if your change is accepted, it will be applied.

Other modules use [http://www.doxygen.org Doxygen] to document APIs rather than gtk-doc - aside from the tool and the mark-up used in the documentation, the rest of the process remains the same.
===  Forums ===

[http://talk.maemo.org/ talk.maemo.org], as well as the [http://maemo.org/community/maemo-users/ maemo.org users forum] is a great place to get help and hang out with fellow Maemo users. German-language readers may want to read [http://www.maemousers.de/ maemousers.de].

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 === maemo.org content ===
-Once you create a [http://maemo.org/profile Maemo profile] you will be able to add comments to your favourite products and rate them, you will be able to favourite or bury [http://planet.maemo.org blog posts] and [http://maemo.org/news maemo.org news items], and you will be able to edit pages in [[Main Page | the wiki]]. There is a dedicated page with tips on [[writing maemo.org content]], including how to get access to various resources.
+Once you create a [http://maemo.org/profile Maemo profile] you will be able to add comments to your favourite products and rate them, you will be able to favourite or bury [http://planet.maemo.org blog posts] and [http://maemo.org/news maemo.org news items], and you will be able to edit pages in [[Main Page | the wiki]].
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