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Hello all,
My name is @FlakMonkey and I am new to the Ubuntu Community. I have been using Ubuntu Linux for years on my personal computers, but have never gotten involved as a contributor.

What do I want to do? In the immediate future, I would love to learn more about Ubuntu and converse with wonderful community members. Longer term, I hope to contribute through documentation, testing and software development.

How can you help? I am a hands-on learner, learning best from labs and tutorials. I would love if people could point me to any good tutorials to get started contributing to Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Community.

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Hello FlakMonkey - Welcome to Ubuntu
You do state “get started contributing to Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Community”.
From my experience if one wants to get a great overview of our community - then work the community Newsletter.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-863/49035
is the recent issue, Skimpy as it is due to all focus on the yearly Ubuntu Summit.
All contributions are appreciated - active participation, if you have the writing skills, is encouraged.

Cheers

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There are a number of generic links you’ll find if you look, eg. Contribute | Ubuntu

@bashing-om has mentioned the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, which can be a good place to learn about the community, and if interested, I’ll provide a link to something written about the process - Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter

It mentions how we communicate (IRC), and the different stage of the process. (Do note many teams use different tools, eg. I have Matrix open, IRC open, Telegram… though Matrix is taking over)

For QA testing, I’d suggest reading any of the various posts relating to Testing Weeks, beta and other type releases, eg. Ubuntu 24.10 Testing Week

For documentation, it may depend on where your interest lies (flavor? desktop? server?) but the Documentation Hour comes to mind…

Software development; likewise here I’d explore whatever area interests you; but if you don’t know the various parts of Ubuntu, teams involved etc, the Ubuntu News team maybe a place to learn more about the various parts/teams that make the larger family or entire Ubuntu project.

My next Ubuntu News team task will be tomorrow arvo (it’s Friday night my local time), where I’ll add some summaries to the articles in our current WIP issue.

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