Please cut, paste, replace and edit as needed: Not yet contributors: Thanks for your interest. The DSA team comprises individuals who already are members of the Debian project, usually after demonstrable contributions to Debian for a considerable period of time. If you are interested in joining Debian, this page has some information that might be useful. http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint Debian members: Thanks for your interest, please join our IRC channel #debian-admin, ask questions and help where you can. Some links to help you get started: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DSA https://dsa.debian.org/ https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/mirror/ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-admin@lists.debian.org https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DSA/UserdirLdapRewrite --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Old verbose proposals Thank you for your interest in contributing to the Debian sysadmin team! As you are not a Debian member, it will be harder for you to contribute to sysadmin tasks since you won't be able to login to Debian machines yet. As you do not have a history of contributing to Debian, we would encourage you to get involved in Debian, come to DebConf and become a member of Debian in order to join the Debian sysadmin team. As you are a Debian member with a history of contributing to Debian you are a potential candidate for joining the team. FIXME: the criteria and process for joining the team is.... We have an upcoming sprint that you might want to attend, it is at in , . Here are some of the ways you can start getting involved with the Debian sysadmin team now: Read through our pages on the main Debian wiki and correct anything that is outdated or needs fixing. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DSA Read through our documentation wiki to familiarise yourself with our procedures and submit patches for anything you find that is outdated or needs fixing. https://dsa.debian.org/ Read through our git repositories and contribute fixes for the FIXME items or any other issues that you can spot. https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/mirror/ Take a look at the bugs in Debian that are affecting the team and help get those bugs fixed. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-admin@lists.debian.org Help with the ongoing rewrite of userdir-ldap and userdir-ldap-cgi. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DSA/UserdirLdapRewrite