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Here are some suggestions for getting started and welcome to the project.

Read the overview pages for each subproject and decide where you'd like to get involved.

• Tuscany consists of several subprojects. Identify what areas you are interested in. Take a look at samples for that area.
• Subscribe to the mailing list. If you are interested to get involved at the user level, subscribe to user mailing list. If you are interested to get involved in the development of Tuscany, subscribe to the developer list. Rememer that you can always unsubscribe later.
• Would like to contribute new ideas? Start with the mailing list and share your thoughtsContribute new ideas for improving Tuscany subprojects.
• Answer questions posted to the mailing list.Contribute to the FAQ under each subproject or to the wiki website
• Identify JIRAs in the area that you are interested in and provide patches.
• Contribute to the user or developer documentation for each subproject on the Tuscany Wiki.
• Investigate bugs that have been reported and provide patches.
• or website. Create the Wiki page onTuscany Wiki, create a JIRA and attach the link.
• Identify known issues that you'd like to fix and provide a patch.
• Contribute to feature developement. Just let the community know what you'd like to work on. It is as easy as that.Help with development for the next release of Apache Tuscany subprojects. For example, the Java developer guide is here
• If in doubt about where to start, send a note to the mailing list and mention your area of interest. Any questions is welcomed. We'd like you to be involved!
• Provide feedback: What is working well? What is missing? What can help you with your deployment. This helps us create software that addresses real pain points in SOA.

communication
Please note that a single mailing list is used for all the subprojects.

The Tuscany community also gets together on IRC. The IRC server is irc.freenode.net and the channel is #tuscany.
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Help is a good source of information on understanding IRC chats.
The following are some IRC chat clients:

• mIRC http://www.mirc.com/
• Trillian http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
• Pidgin http://www.pidgin.im/

If you are not familiar with Apache, you can read more about how Apache works at this link.