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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[meta license="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled
+[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]
+
+So, you are interested in contributing to the GNU/Hurd effort?
+
+First thing to do then is to get access to a GNU/Hurd system.  Installing
+[[Debian_GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] will probably be the easiest and most
+feature-complete solution.  If you don't have spare hardware to use for doing
+so, you can also get a
+[[shell_account_on_a_public_Hurd_machine|public_hurd_boxen]].  Depending on the
+things you're going to work on (and on your internet connection), this may be
+an easy way of getting used to Hurd systems.
+
+Then you can either play around and eventually strive to do something
+useful or -- if you want -- ask us to assign something to you, depending
+on the skills you have and the resources you intend to invest.
+
+See <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/devel.html> for details,
+<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/docs.html> for documents,
+<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/> in general and also this whole wiki, of
+course.
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+
+## Contributing
+
+Read about various ways of [[contributing]].
+
+
 ## Getting Help
 
 There are a couple of different [[Hurd_FAQs|hurd/FAQ]].