Introduction

[Cesare Tirabassi]

On Tuesday 12 February 2008 07:51:05 Balaji G wrote:

>I am so much interested in contributing to Ubuntu and hence have joined the 
>MOTU list .

Hi Balaji,

I'm glad you joined!

>I am interested in fixing small bugs to  start off with and have already 
>started reading through the packaging guide in the Ubuntu Wiki.

Thats a very good start. I can suggest you a couple of other wiki pages to 
look at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment: should give you an overall view on 
what is involved in the Ubuntu development process.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=bitesize: lists some 
bitesized bugs if you want to jump straight in

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/TODO: lists all activities we are currently 
performing.

If you need help or have some questions you want answered, you could pay a 
visit to the IRC freenode channel #ubuntu-motu:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat

We also have semiregular Q&A sessions on Fridays in #ubuntu-classroom, usually 
around 13:00 UTC.

You should also subscribe to the ubuntu-motu-mentors mailing list where you 
could find help more suitable for a newcomer.
Feel free to post any questions you have in ubuntu-motu or ubuntu-motu-mentors 
or to seek help in #ubuntu-motu.

Cesare