Advocacy

The easiest way to give back to the Ubuntu community is by telling others about Xubuntu and become a Xubuntu advocate:

• Join or start a Local Community Team and get involved in Ubuntu advocacy, activities, talks, help install Ubuntu on new users' computers by organizing or attending install parties and provide friendly support in your local community and language.
• Give a talk at your local Linux User Group or other technical group on Ubuntu! A sample of templates, talks and notes given by others in several languages are available on the wiki.
• Join the Ubuntu marketing team and assist in their promotion and advocacy efforts to help promote Xubuntu.
• In general, you should show your friends the power of Free Software, spread the word and raise general awareness around Ubuntu!

Support

You can make a major contribution to the Xubuntu project by helping others use Xubuntu:

• Join the Xubuntu support and discussion IRC channel: #xubuntu on irc.freenode.net
• Join an email support list or discussion list on the Ubuntu Mailing Lists. The primary support list is xubuntu-users and the primary announcement lists are ubuntu-announce and ubuntu-news.
• Respond to support requests on launchpad.

Documentation

If you get stumped by a problem, chances are good that many other people will be frustrated by it as well. If you are not in a position to write code to change the situation -- for whatever reason -- you can help everyone else out by writing up your experience and documenting the solution! Some of the most constructive ways to get involved in the Xubuntu documentation community might be:

• Take notes as you puzzle through a problem and then document the solution. Check to see if documentation already exists first. If it does, augment or improve existing documentation. If it doesn't go ahead and add a page in the wiki. Rather than answer a question two or more times, write up the answer and make it available to everyone in the wiki.
• Read through the HOWTOs and other documentation in the Ubuntu forums, read them over and check them for accuracy, and put them in the wiki. Read the Wiki Guide for help with this.
• If you are interested in working on the official Xubuntu documentation, you can join the Ubuntu Documentation Team. Information on getting started with the Documentation Team is online at the Documentation team website.
• Help clean, proof read, and test the instructions in the community wiki. You can help get an idea of useful tasks in the WikiToDo for more information.