Participate! You belong to the huge vtiger community! Here are a few steps that will make you participate easily in vtiger: You can be a part of vtiger community on many levels, from offering your advice to maintaining the core packages. We welcome any new initiatives, code contributions or other ideas to improve vtiger. Anyone making contributions or participating in vtiger will be treated as a community member.
Spread vtiger The easiest way to give back to the vtiger community is by spreading the word about vtiger and its various activities.
- Join or start a local vtiger team
- Get involved in spreading vtiger like by doing activities, talks, help install vtiger for new users'
- Provide friendly support in your local community and language.
- Use our Wiki documentation, which captures most of the issues and resolutions from the real user perspective and a whole section for the developers.
Support
You can make a major contribution to the vtiger CRM by helping others use vtiger for the purpose. You can take clues from your experience in using vtiger CRM and try to resolve the issues faced by the other users in the community. - Join vtiger Forums
- Join the vtiger support and discussion IRC channel: # on irc.freenode.net
Ideas and Feedback You can help us steer our way by putting in your ideas and feedback for molding vtiger into a complete CRM package. You can participate in discussions and brainstorming on the Wiki where we work on the fastest-moving documents before they are ready for publication on the main Web site. vtiger Forums Documentation  If you happen to be hounded by a problem, it is most likely that there are a whole lot of others with the same kind of problem too. If coding is not your forte, you can help everyone else by writing up your experience and documenting the solution! Some of the most constructive ways to get involved in the vtiger Documentation community might be: - You can figure out a possible solution for a problem, make notes of the procedure you followed, this can be pooled into the Wiki.
- You just need to check if the same document exists, if it doesn't, go ahead and add a page in the Wiki.
- If you are interested in working on the official vtiger documentation, you can join the vtiger Documentation Team too.
- Help clean, proof read, and test the instructions in the community wiki. For more information,refer our WiKi
Translation & Localization - If you are comfortable using vtiger CRM in English, you can be a good asset to the community by helping to translate the vtiger applications into your home language.
- Even if you just translate a few lines you may make all the difference to someone in your own country who is just starting to learn about vtiger.
- You can contact either the language pack maintainers or start off a new language pack by yourself.
Refer to our wiki link about how to start off translation packages. . Language Packs
Quality Assurance  You can contribute to vtiger simply by running the latest version and reporting bugs and helping follow those bugs until they are fixed. The first steps in getting involved in vtiger QA and bug-tracking include: - Running the latest development version of vtiger CRM, and upgrading regularly.
- Subscribing to the mailing list online and watching it.Many developers post testing and experimental packages to mailing list.
- More than actually using the software, what really helps is the identification of bugs and the help to resolve these bugs to make the product much better. You can check the How To's in our Wiki page to find out if anybody has any resolutions for a probable bug or issue.
You could also check into the Bug Tracker for a similar bug and actually track it until it is fixed. This could give you a fair idea of how your issue could he handled.
Programming & Packaging 
You can make technical contributions to vtiger by
- Evolving new modules and packaging these modules
- Fixing bugs in the core package.
- You can express your ideas or contribute these ideas on our Mailing List or discuss with our team.
We welcome any suggestion, however minute, as it may go a long way in bettering the product for the community.
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