Get involved
There is no application and no committee. Six things genuinely need doing, grouped by what they actually cost you. Start at the top.
Start today
Nothing to arrange and nobody to ask. An evening at most.
Run Ubuntu
The first contribution is using it and reporting what breaks. Download the current LTS, or check what release you are on before you upgrade.
$ lsb_release -aReport and triage bugs
A good bug report is a contribution. Collect the details from the machine that broke, then file it against the right package.
$ ubuntu-bug <package>Answer questions
Most of the work is answering the same twenty questions patiently. The team runs its own Q&A site, and the Facebook group is where the day-to-day traffic lands.
Give it a few hours
Worth doing properly, and the highest-leverage work this team has.
Translate into Burmese
Ubuntu is translated by volunteers in Launchpad. Burmese coverage is thin, which makes it one of the highest-leverage things a Myanmar contributor can do.
Write for this site
Guides in Burmese, hardware notes, and write-ups from meetups. Posts are Markdown files, no CMS account needed.
Take something on
Ongoing, and the thing we most often need a hand with.
Host or help run an event
Install fests need space, power, and people who can talk someone through a partition table. Any of those three is enough.
How we expect people to behave
Ubuntu means “humanity toward others”, and the project has a Code of Conduct that says what that means in practice: be considerate, be respectful, disagree on the substance, and assume the other person is acting in good faith. This team works the same way. If someone is making the room worse, tell us and we will deal with it.
Report a problem