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<h2>How you can Help</h2>
<p><b>You like rsyslog and would like to lend us a helping hand?</b> This page
tells you how easy it is to help a little bit. You can contribute to the project
even with a single mouse click! If you could pick a single item from the
wish list, that would be awfully helpful!</p>
<p>This is our wish list:</p>
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<li>let others know how great rsyslog is<ul>
<li>spread word about rsyslog in forums and newsgroups</li>
<li>place a link to <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com">www.rsyslog.com</a>
from your home page</li>
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</li>
<li>let us know about rsyslog - we are eager for feedback<ul>
<li>tell us what you like and what you not like - so that we can include
that into development</li>
<li>tell us what you use rsyslog for - especially if you have high
traffic volume or an otherwise "uncommon" deployment. We are looking for
case studies and experience how rsyslog performs in unusual scenarios.</li>
<li>allow us to post your thoughts and experiences as a "user story" on
the web site (so far, none are there ;))</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>if you know how to create packages (rpm, deb, ...)<ul>
<li>we would very much appreciate your help with package creation. We know
that it is important to have good binary packages for a product to
spread widely. Yet, we do not have the knowledge to do it all ourselves.
<a href="mailto:rgerhards@adiscon.com">Drop Rainer a note </a>if you
could help us out.</li>
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<li>if you have configured a device for sending syslog data, and that device
is not in our
<a href="http://www.monitorware.com/en/syslog-enabled-products/">syslog
configuration database</a>, you might want to tell us how to configure it.</li>
<li>if you are a corporate user<ul>
<li>you might consider <a href="http://www.adiscon.com">Adiscon</a>'s
commercial <a href="http://www.monitorware.com/">MonitorWare products</a>
for Windows, e.g. to deliver Windows Event Log data to rsyslogd (sales
of the commercial products funds the open source development - and they
also work very well).</li>
<li>you might be interested in
<a href="http://www.adiscon.com/Common/en/Products/techsup.php">
purchasing professional support or add-on development</a> for rsyslog</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<p><b>We appreciate your help very much.</b> A big thank you for anything you
might do!</p>
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