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<title>Getting started</title>
<para>To begin contributing to the OpenPOWER Foundation documentation, the following steps must be completed:
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<para>Install tools</para>
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<para>Create accounts</para>
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<title>Installing tools</title>
<para>Only two tools are required to update documentation, git and maven. Git manages the documentation
source and maven provides the build framework to create the published content in PDF and html form.
Installation steps for these tools varies by operating system.</para>
<para>On Debian-based Linux operating systems (Ubuntu and Debian), install maven and git as follows:
<screen><prompt>$</prompt><userinput>sudo apt-get install git</userinput>
<prompt>$</prompt><userinput>sudo apt-get install maven</userinput></screen></para>
<para>On RPM-based Linux operating systems (Fedora, RHEL, openSUSE, SLES), install maven and git as follows:
<screen><prompt>$</prompt><userinput>sudo yum install git</userinput>
<prompt>$</prompt><userinput>sudo yum install maven</userinput></screen></para>
<para>On Mac OS X, use Macports to install maven and git as follows:
<screen><prompt>$</prompt><userinput>sudo port install git</userinput>
<prompt>$</prompt><userinput>sudo port install maven3</userinput></screen></para>
<para>or use Homebrew to install maven and git as follows:
<screen><prompt>$</prompt><userinput>brew install git</userinput>
<prompt>$</prompt><userinput>brew install maven</userinput></screen></para>
<para>For information on how to setup the environment on Windows, see the following websites:
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<para>git for Windows - <link xlink:href="http://msysgit.github.io/">http://msysgit.github.io/</link></para>
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<para>Maven on Windows - <link xlink:href="http://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/windows-prerequisites.html">
http://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/windows-prerequisites.html</link></para>
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<title>Creating accounts</title>
<para>All OpenPOWER project documentation is maintained in GitHub trees, public and private. To join the GitHub community,
apply at <link xlink:href="https://github.com/join">https://github.com/join</link>.</para>
<para>If you will be participating in private OpenPOWER Foundation trees, you will need to visit the OpenPOWER Foundation Members
Area wiki to find administrators for the appropriate git tree.</para>
<para>To learn more about using git, see the online article in GitHub Help, "Good Resources for Learning Git and GitHub." at
<link xlink:href="https://help.github.com/articles/good-resources-for-learning-git-and-github/">
https://help.github.com/articles/good-resources-for-learning-git-and-github/</link>.</para>
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