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<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>Every volunteer project obtains its strength from the people
involved in it. We invite you to participate as much or as little
as you choose. The roles and responsibilities that people can
assume in the project are based on merit. Everybody's input
matters!</p>
<p>There are a variety of ways to participate. Regardless of how
you choose to participate, we suggest you join some or all of our
<a href="mail-lists.html">mailing lists</a>.</p>
<h2><b>Use the Products and Give Us Feedback</b></h2>
<p>Using the products, reporting bugs, making feature requests,
etc. is by far the most important role. It's your feedback that
allows the technology to evolve.</p>
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<li><a href="mail-lists.html">Join Mailing Lists</a></li>
<li><a href="download.cgi">Download Binary Builds</a></li>
<li><a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2">Report
bugs/Request additional features</a></li>
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<h2><b>Contribute Code or Documentation Patches</b></h2>
<p>In this role, you participate in the actual development of the
code. If this is the type of role you'd like to play, here are some
steps (in addition to the ones above) to get you started:</p>
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<li>Read our <a href="guidelines.html">developer guidelines</a> and <a
href="release-process.html">release process</a></li>
<li>Review the <a href="refLib.html">reference library</a></li>
<li><a href=
"http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/axis/axis2/java/core/">
View the Source Code</a></li>
<li><a href="svn.html">Access SVN Repository</a></li>
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