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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]]."]]
+
+People often come to us and state that they'd like to help with the GNU/Hurd.
+This is very good and very much encouraged: we're always looking for volunteers
+to help with the effort!  However, for things to eventually become productive,
+we'd like every new potential contributor to read through the following list of
+items and spend some time thinking about those.
+
+
+* What areas are you interested in contributing to?
+
+    Think a moment about this list: porting and extending existing software to
+    run on Hurd systems; work on existing or write new Hurd servers or
+    libraries; work on the standard C library; make Hurd stuff usuable from
+    other programming languages than C; work on the current Mach microkernel;
+    do research and development of a next-generation microkernel; help with
+    development of new Hurd libraries and servers on top of that.  Those
+    projects are all within the *Hurd* topic, but are vastly different
+    projects.
+
+* How is your expertise about system and kernel programming?
+
+    Sadly we don't have the ressources to teach you from ground-up.  We will --
+    of course! -- try to give answers to specific questions, but on substantial
+    parts of your contribution you'll have to work on your own.  (Unless there
+    is someone who is already working in the same area, of course.)
+
+* Have you previously been working on Free Software projects?
+
+    Are you used to the working-style Free Software projects bring with them?
+    Did you already contribute to other projects?  What sort of contributions?
+
+* What is your motivation to work on the GNU Hurd?
+
+
+Every new contributor is very much encouraged to take some notes about these
+items and post them to the [[*bug-hurd*_mailing_list|mailing_lists]].