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<p>The best ways to contribute are by finding and reporting bugs, participating in community support, and improving the code.</p>
<h2 id="reporting_bugs">Reporting bugs</h2>
<p>We use <a href="https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues">GitHub</a> as our issue tracker. There you can submit bug reports and make feature suggestions.</p>
<h2 id="community_support">Community support</h2>
<p>Answer DITA-OT related questions at <a href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/">DITA users group</a> or <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/dita-ot">StackOverflow</a>.</p>
<h2 id="patch_the_code">Patch the code</h2>
<p>We use <a href="https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot">GitHub</a> as our version control. You can contribute fixes to bugs or new features by sending <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests">pull requests</a> at GitHub.</p>
<p>Developers and vendors using the toolkit are encouraged to join the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=dita-ot-developer">DITA-OT developer</a> mailing list. This list is used to discuss upcoming changes that may impact developers or vendors.</p>
<!--h2>Who are we?</h2>
<p>DITA Open Toolkit is maintained and developed by a team of volunteer developers.</p>
<p>The toolkit was originally developed within IBM and was open sourced in 2005. Since that time, DITA-OT has been updated significantly by a various companies and individuals.</p>
<h3 id="core_committers">Core Committers</h3>
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        <h4 class="media-heading">Robert D Anderson</h4>
        <p>Robert is the project lead and core developer of DITA-OT, representing <a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a>. He's also the co-editor of the OASIS DITA specification.</p>
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        <h4 class="media-heading">Jarno Elovirta</h4>
        <p>Jarno is the lead developer of DITA-OT, working on the project as an individual contributor.</p>
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<h3 id="additional_contributors">Additional Contributors</h3>
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 <li>Kristen James Eberlein, <a href="http://www.eberleinconsulting.com/">Eberlein Consulting</a></li>
 <li>George Bina, <a href="http://www.sync.ro/">SyncRO Soft</a></li>
 <li>Radu Coravu, <a href="http://www.sync.ro/">SyncRO Soft</a></li>
 <li>Eliot Kimber, <a href="http://www.reallysi.com/">Really Strategies, Inc</a></li>
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<h3 id="previous_contributors">Previous Contributors</h3>
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  <li>Eric Sirois, <a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a> — Core developer</li>
  <li>沈剑乐 (Jian Le Shen, &#8220;Jason&#8221;), <a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a> — Primary developer within IBM</li>
  <li>Reuven Weiser, <a href="http://www.suite-sol.com/">Suite Solutions</a> — PDF2 plug-in developer</li>
  <li>Don Day, <a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a> — Original project lead</li>
  <li>Stephen Zhang, I<a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a> — Primary developer through the first several years of the toolkit</li>
  <li>Chris Wong — original contributor of the PDF2 plugin</li>
  <li>Deborah Pickett, Moldflow — Frequent developer and contributor</li>
  <li>Dick Johnson and Anna van Raaphorst, <a href="http://www.vrcommunications.com/">VR Communcations, Inc</a> — Original contributors of the DITA User Guide</li>
  <li>Rob Justice, individual contributor — DITA-OT Documentation</li>
  <li>Aryeh Sanders, <a href="http://www.suite-sol.com/">Suite Solutions</a> — PDF2 plug-in developer</li>
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