Are you a fan of Linux and open source software? Do you have an open source project of your own that you think would be a great addition to the Linode Library? Do you enjoy helping others learn?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you might be a perfect fit for our community contributors program. We're looking for helpful, knowledgeable people to help us build the best Linux documentation resource on the Internet.
Our community is comprised of IT professionals, Linux enthusiasts, and general fans of open source software from around the world. Linode Library guides are an excellent way to raise awareness for a project. If you're a Linode customer, your account referral URL will be used on each guide you contribute, allowing you to accrue service credit for each new customer referred to us through your guides. If you don't have a Linode yet, sign up for your own Linux VPS today.
You'll be listed as the author for each of your published guides, and your name may be linked to a site of your choice. This is a great way to spark interest in your online pursuits, even if you're writing about something completely different.
Whether you're interested in server applications, development frameworks, clustering techniques, or something else entirely, we welcome tutorials on software that's of use to the community. Your project doesn't necessarily have to be extremely well known, but it should be under active development and be reasonably stable.
You're encouraged to look through our existing articles before submitting an idea, as we may have already covered a particular topic. However, if you have an idea for doing something in a manner that significantly differs from an existing Library guide, we may accept your method for publication.
It should be noted that we don't accept every article idea we receive. This shouldn't be taken as an indication that we feel a topic isn't worthwhile; we simply feel that some material doesn't represent a good fit for the Library. In cases where someone submits a guide that is already hosted elsewhere, it will be declined due to duplication of content.
You don't have to make a living at writing to contribute to the Library. All of our documentation goes through testing and editorial review processes, so even if you're all thumbs when it comes to putting prose on paper, your help will be appreciated. The most important component of an article submission is the precise series of steps required to get a piece of software working; we can enhance your guide to correct spelling and grammatical errors or provide additional information where necessary.
All contributions must be the original work of the submitter, with the understanding that other resources will frequently be consulted as part of the writing process (in other words, no direct "copying and pasting" from other guides is permitted). We require all contributors to sign an assignment of copyright agreement for materials submitted to the Linode Library. However, it should be noted that all of our documentation is published under a Creative Commons "Attribution - No Derivative Works" license so that is may be freely shared by the community.
Send an email to docs@linode.com detailing your article idea, and
we'll do our best to get back to you within two business days. Alternately, you can find our team
members in the Linode community IRC channel throughout
the day. Our nicks are as follows:
