There are many ways you can participate in this project. While developing an operating system to a large extent is about programming, there is also a huge need for people that can write documentation and people that can test the things that the developers and writers do. See our current roster of developers.

We welcome all people that want to help us out, and as this is a non-profit project we understand that some of you can only spend a little time and that some of you may be able to spend lots of time one week and nothing for many months.

If you want to participate please contact us via the forums and tell us what you can / want to do.

If you are a programmer you could start coding at once. Start by reading the Developer Guidelines page and downloading the current code. While we don't require you to use SVN it's the easiest way to get into our team.

The best way to get hold of us is to get onto our mailing list or to send us an email.

You must follow the rules of the project:

• All submitted code must be written by you or be existing open source code.

• All code developed by others must be open source and credits must be kept and not changed in any way.

• The following people may NOT participate in developing code for this project:

• Former or current IBM employees unless they can positively prove they will not breach any of the rules in their employment contracts.

• People bound by contracts with IBM that gives them access to things that would be considered illegal or doubtful for inclution in this project.

• People that fit in these categories may however participate in documentation, writing specification or non-code-related activities (building webpages etc.) as long as they don't violate their contracts with IBM.