How to become a Parabola hacker - ParabolaWiki

# How to become a Parabola hacker

This is not a guide but some guidelines that seemed to have worked in the past:

- Be around. People don't care about your big plans if you don't stick around and make friends. Reporting non-free bugs and participating in mailing list discussions is a key to build trust. Specially hang around on the IRC channel and talk to people so they get to know you and you to them. Building a rapport and community around Parabola and Free Software is what drives the our project.

- Be patient. We're not the fastest people to solve things :P

- Have fun and be respectful, no one likes an annoyance. In case of doubt, we have an IRC Policy.

- Make yourself comfortable using Parabola itself. It is difficult to be a developer unless you are fairly accustomed to using the very system. Read documentation, perform basic administrative tasks and installations.

- Make yourself comfortable using cryptographic public key infrastructures. You're going to use a lot of SSH and GPG.

- Make yourself comfortable using building tools. You don't have to be an expert to be a part of us, just be willing to learn.

- Create a public GPG key and get someone to verify it. Getting it signed by more than three Parabola Developers will do.

These are just some things we've said in the past -- Fauno (talk) 21:13, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

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