Welcome to the GetDeb Team

This Wiki main purpose is to provide you some insight on the GetDeb team works and how you can get involved into it.

Who are we

A volunteer group of individuals devoting our spare time to provide an easy way to get updates as well as additional software for Ubuntu. We are not sponsored, endorsed or associated in any way with Canonical.

What we do

Build and distribute updates for some of the software offered in Ubuntu, along with new software packages not yet available from the official repositories;
Develop the custom content management engine used to publish the packages by www.getdeb.net;
Develop the Automated Build System used to build the packages from source;
Maintain the GetDeb infrastructure.
Develop the apt-portal content management system that is used for playdeb

How to get involved

The first step is to subscribe our collaboration mailing list (low traffic), for that you need to join the getdeb-collaboration group at launchpad:

https://launchpad.net/~getdeb-collaboration, subscribe from there.

How you can help

If you have a server with available resources, provide a GetDebMirror;
If you are interested/skilled in creating .deb packages, check the Packaging Guide;
If you are interested/skilled in web development, check the Web Development page.

How to reach us