We're delighted that you're interested in becoming a contributor to Open Source projects and making your own mark. All engineers and Open Source geeks anywhere in the world are very welcome to join, work on and lead Open Source projects at Twincling Technology Foundation.

• Get an overview of Twincling Open Source projects at http://www.twincling.org/projects
• Visit the project specific site ie. http://www.twincling.org/PROJECT-NAME (eg. for triage, you visit http://www.twincling.org/triage)
• Get yourself an email address if you do not have one as yet. We suggest you give lavabit.com or zenbe.com a try.
• Create an IRC nick for yourself by registering on irc.freenode.net . You need this to chat in real-time with the Twincling community members on the IRC channel #twincling
• Join the Twincling Engineering list (engineering-subscribe@twincling.org). This is valuable for global updates and generic engineering discussions that affect all the projects. The project steering team is subscribed here.
• Read up about the project discussion archives to get a sense of whats being discussed, and join the project mailing list (eg. triage-request@twincling.org).
• Send a hello mail to the project mailing list, introducing yourself, stating any queries you have. If you have sufficient understanding of the project, please state what you would be contributing on.
• Create an account for yourself in the (interim) defect tracking system at http://bugs.twincling.org/
• Create an account for yourself in Drupal on http://www.twincling.org/ . Once registered, you can update the project website, edit the content, add yourself to the team list and be able to blog. Drupal is a very well designed modular content management framework.
• For assistance with system setup, BSD/Linux installation, internet connectivity or configuration problem, please join the Twincling list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twincling . You can participate in the user centric and support related discussions here.
• Catch up Twincling tweets at http://twitter.com/twincling

Everything looks fine ? Then, you are good to go !

The next very important thing is to understand the Twincling culture. Take a look at http://www.twincling.org/node/299

Need to meet some of the team members face to face (F2F), please join us for the Saturday meets. Take a look at http://www.twincling.org/events for more details.

Still got questions ? Please drop an email to info@twincling.org