These "Help" documents have been composed to answer questions you might have related to this site. You can peruse information like this help document about how to use and participate in this site. The table of contents delineates the various topics that these help documents address. If you have immediate questions, general or specific, you might also find the Site FAQ useful.
You can also find out more about the development projects hosted on this site by viewing the complete listing and visiting individual project home page.
In general, this site aims to provide members with the tools and resources needed in creating and maintaining projects. Project owners must craft projects that not only will be approved by the site administrators, but will also be appealing enough to attract other users to become active participants.
This same dynamic that governs individual project administration implicitly determines how this site functions. These help documents are meant to help project owners craft and maintain appealing and successful projects and to aid users in working within the community associated with any project.
As you enter the site browse your My start page, which serves as your access portal to the site. Use the links on the My start page to familiarize yourself with functionality available on this site. Before you have joined any project, you can:
More information about each item can be found in the Help pages. As you become more comfortable with navigating through the site use the Projects tab to pick a project to visit. A good way to familiarize yourself with a project is to peruse the home page and browse through announcements and mailing lists.