How can I help the Community

If you want to help and contribute to the OS/2 and eComStation Community there is a lot you can do. It does not matter if you have time or not. There are also some activities that can only took you some minutes of your week.

Here are some suggestions.

Contribute to the OS2World Wiki
This wiki is open for contributions. To have a account on this wiki just register on the main OS2World page and with the same user and password you will have access to the forum and wiki.

The good things about the wiki is that you can help improve other work or submit your own, so it does not matter if you have just a few minutes, you can contribute.

This are some suggestion of what you can do on the wiki.


 * Submit your OS/2-eCS Screnshots to the OS2World Wiki
 * Submit an article to the Wiki
 * Create a page of you favorite OS/2-eCS software on this wiki.

Contribute on the Forums


There are several forums on the Internet about OS2World. OS2World has one where you can collaborate with other community members.

Upload Contents to Hobbes
Hobbes is our central repository of files, but sometime there are some software missing there. You can help on hobbes by:
 * Uploading some OS/2-eCS files that are missing
 * Re-organizing something that is not well documented or located in the wrong directory.

Submit News to the OS/2-eCS Community
Sometime we may miss some OS/2-eCS news, that's why users can also submit news. There are three well known procedures to upload news:
 * Submit news through OS2World.com
 * Submit news through eComStationnews.com
 * Submit news through OS/2 Warp News and Rumors site.

Join the Open Source Abandonware Campaign
OS/2 has a lot of old software. There is an on going campaign to try to contact developers and ask him to release their source code as open source.


 * Just select one random contributor to this platform.
 * Check if you like their software.
 * And if it is not open source, try to track the author from all the social networks or google it.
 * Once you track it, kindly ask if he can open source it.

You can ask help on this to Martín Itúrbide. He is always interested on having more open source software on this platform.

Martín's log for this campaign is located here: Open Source Campaign

Test Java Applications on OS/2-eCS
You can also help testing Java applications on this platform and report that are working or not on the [www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,18.msg1614.html OS2World.com forum thread]. Fell free to post your problems and screenshots there.

Need Ideas?
Sure, on this community there are more requirements that developers, so there are a lot of ideas out there:
 * Check out Comments and Suggestions about eComStation User Experience
 * XWorkplace needs some help too.
 * Netlabs Wiki has also some random interesting ideas.