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Contributions and feedback from our User Community are essential to maintain and expand the OpenNebula project. There are several ways in which you can get involved and contribute to this open source project—from giving advice and technical support to fellow users, to developing components and tools around the OpenNebula core, so check it out and get started!

A. Use OpenNebula

We appreciate when our users not only download the latest stable release of the technology and use the associated design, installation and operation guides, but also when they take an active role in the discussions and conversations that take place at the Community Forum or via IRC. By asking questions, by providing feedback, suggestions or criticism, or simply by answering other users' questions, you become part of the ever-growing, global OpenNebula Community.

• Release Schedule and Packages
• Release Policy
• Product Roadmap
• QA & Testing
• Documentation Archives

We look forward to your feedback! - reporting code and documentation bugs, or submitting new feature requests, are critical aspects of any open source project, and OpenNebula is no exception to the rule.

You can check our Vulnerability Management Process to know how to report a vulnerability privately to the OpenNebula developers and the process that we follow to 1) fix it, and 2) to communicate security issues to our users.

B. Code OpenNebula

We use GitHub for coordinating the software development. If you haven’t done it yet, you can always create a GitHub account and subscribe to the Community Forum. There are several ways in which you can help with the development of OpenNebula:

• Providing minor enhancements, new features, and patches for bugfixes
• Testing and reviewing the development version of the software
• Reviewing the software documentation
• Helping us translate Sunstone, our graphical user interface

OpenNebula is fully open-source software distributed and licensed for use under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. You need to sign your work before we can incorporate it into OpenNebula.

C. Create an Add-on

OpenNebula Add-ons are third-party, community extensions (tools, interfaces or drivers) that broaden the capabilities and platform technologies and services with which OpenNebula can interact (e.g. support for new hypervisors, monitoring tools, authentication services, networking devices or storage subsystems to access cloud commercial offerings for cloud bursting, etc.).

• Add-ons Catalog
• Contribute to Add-ons

D. Spread the word

You can help spread the word about OpenNebula and open source cloud computing.

• Become an OpenNebula Champion
• Participate in our TechDays and Conferences