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37 changes: 33 additions & 4 deletions source/contributors/_index.md
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user experience, as that is valuable information for the project, and
might be a good place to start your contributions.

### The Code
### What can I contribute?

Most (not all) Apache projects have their code on
[GitHub](https://github.com/apache). Search for the project name in the
**apache** GitHub organization.
Most people's first thought when contributing to open source projects is
code. And, indeed, that's where most people get involved. Most (not all)
Apache projects have their code on [GitHub](https://github.com/apache).
Search for the project name in the **apache** GitHub organization.

There are, however, many other areas where you can contribute to a
project. These include, but are not limited to:

* Documentation
* Marketing and social media promotion
* Event planning
* Technical support on mailing lists and other forums
* Vendor/Sponsor relations
* Project management (organizing the next sprint or feature set, keeping
track of who is working on what, updating the roadmap)
* Community management

Projects should identify, recruit for, and celebrate contributions in
all of these areas, and reward non-code contributors with the same
rights and privileges that they do for code contributors.

**Being a committer is *not* just for code contributors!** It's a
recognition of anyone who is **committed** to the project.

### Communication

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or by using the [lists.apache.org][11] site
directly.

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TODO:

All of this stuff about mailing lists should be in mailing-lists.md
rather than here.

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#### Subscribe

To subscribe (that is, to receive every message sent to the list via
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ASF mailing lists default to English, unless specified otherwise.

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TODO:

This stuff about configuring mailing lists should really be under
/committers rather than here, since you can't make any of these changes
until you're a committer.

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## Mailing list configuration

Modern software development tools, including GitHub, your various ticket
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