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<section>
<title>MantisBT News</title>
<para>
TODO: blog, twitter, announce mailing list.
There are several ways to keep up to date with MantisBT news. These
include:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
mantisbt-announce mailing list is a very low traffic
list that is used for major announcements, typically
announcements about releases. All Mantis users are
encouraged to subscribe to this mailing list. The
average traffic should be no more than one to two posts
per month.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><ulink
url="http://www.mantisbt.org/blog/">Mantis Blog</ulink> is used to communicate
announcements about new releases, topics relating to MantisBT, etc. Users are
encouraged to subscribe to the RSS feed to know when new posts are posted there.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><ulink
url="http://twitter.com/mantisbt">Twitter</ulink> is used to notify users about
up-to-date details about what is happening with MantisBT development. For
example, a Twitter update is automatically posted by the official bug tracker
whenever an issue is resolved. Twitter users are encouraged to follow
"mantisbt".
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>

<section>
<title>Contributing</title>
<para>
TODO: Put together a section based on the Wiki page.
</para>
</section>

<section>
<title>Features and Benefits</title>

<para>TODO: Revise list based on latest feature - not all features have
to be listed here.</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Free</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Easy to install</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Web based</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Platform independent</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Multiple projects</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Multiple languages</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Emailing</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Simple Search</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Viewing filters</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Developed in PHP</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>

<section>
<title>Goals</title>

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</itemizedlist>
</section>

<section>
<title>Cost</title>

<para>
MantisBT is free. The net cost to use MantisBT is the time to
download, install, and configure the software plus any potential
hardware costs. Continued maintenance should be minimal unless you
are tweaking the package. If you've done this sort of thing
before it will probably take about 5-60 minutes. If not, plan on
around 1-8 hours depending on the problems you run into. You don't
have to know a thing about PHP to use MantisBT, unless something goes
wrong. Then it helps to be able to tinker with PHP scripts (when
there's a little bug or you want to tweak something). PHP is a
simple scripting language and syntacticaly resembles C / C++. It is very
easy to pickup and learn. The
<ulink url="http://www.php.net/manual/en/">PHP Manual</ulink>
is a great reference for any PHP related issue. The user comments always shed
light into issues that others have experienced. There are
many sites that offer basic tutorials for learning PHP and/or MySQL
(
<ulink url="http://www.devshed.com/">DevShed</ulink>
|
<ulink url="http://www.webmonkey.com/">WebMonkey</ulink>
).
</para>
</section>
</chapter>
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&contributing;

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<title>Acknowledgements</title>
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<chapter>
<title>Contributing to MantisBT</title>

<section>
<title>Talent and Time</title>
<para>
One of the greatest ways to contribute to MantisBT is to contribute
your talent and time. For MantisBT to keep growing we need such support
in all areas related to the software development cycle. This includes:
business analysts, developers, web designers, graphics designers,
technical writers, globalization developers, translators, testers,
super users, packagers and active users. If you would like to
contribute in any of these capacities please contact us through the
"Contact Us" page.
</para>

</section>

<section>
<title>Recommend MantisBT to Others</title>

<para>
It feels great when we get feedback from the user community about
how MantisBT boosted their productivity, and benefited their organization.
A lot of the feedback I get is via email, some on mailing lists, and some
on forums. I would encourage such users to blog about it, tell their
friends about MantisBT, and recommend MantisBT to other organizations.
MantisBT is driven by it's community, the greater the community, the
greater the ideas, the greater of a product it becomes.
</para>
</section>

<section>
<title>Blog about MantisBT</title>

<para>
If you have a blog, then blog about MantisBT, review it's features
and help us spread the word. A lot of users also like to blog
about how they customized MantisBT to fit their needs or to
integrate with other tools that they use in their work environment.
</para>
</section>

<section>
<title>Integrate with MantisBT</title>

<para>
If you have a product that can be integrates with MantisBT to provide
a value for MantisBT users, that would be a great place to contribute
and benefit both your project's community and the MantisBT community.
A great examples in this area are integrations with content management
systems (e.g. *Nuke, Xoops), project management (PHPProjekt), and
TestLink for Test Management. MantisBT can easily be integrated with
projects in any programming language whether it is hosted on the same
webserver or anywhere else in the world. This can be achieved through
it's SOAP API and MantisConnect client libraries. MantisConnect comes
with client libraries and samples in languages like PHP, .NET, Java and
Cocoa.
</para>
</section>

<section>
<title>Registered in MantisBT Users Directory</title>

<para>
Join the <ulink url="http://www.mantisbt.org/directory.php">Users
Directory</ulink> by clicking Submit. While entering your company or
project details you will be able to write up a testimonial about
MantisBT which will then be included in the <ulink
url="http://www.mantisbt.org/testimonials.php">Testimonials
page</ulink>.
</para>
</section>

<section>
<title>Donate Money</title>

<para>
Use the PayPal donate buttons that you will see around the website
(e.g. bottom left of the home page). You can donate using your
credit card even if you don't have a PayPal account. Donations is
a very easy way for the MantisBT community to give back to MantisBT.
The donations can be as small as US$1 or as big as you or your organization
want it to be.
</para>
</section>

<section>
<title>Sponsor MantisBT</title>

<para>
MantisBT Sponsors are organizations that have realized the benefit
brought to their business by using MantisBT and would like to
protect such investment and always push it forward via sponsorship.
Please take a moment to visit our sponsors page and use the "Contact
Us" page for further information.
</para>
</section>
</chapter>
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