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Contributing

The uTouch framework and related projects are open source. If you would like to contribute, you need to do the following:

1. get a Launchpad id

2. sign the Ubuntu Code of Conduct

3. sign Canonical's contributor agreement

4. read and adhere to our Developer's Guide to the Galaxy

5. abide by the coding styles and best practices of the related upstream projects

6. pick some tickets or file your own

7. start hacking!

Reference Materials

• Multitouch/Definitions - A glossary of terms we use when discussing uTouch technology, both at the user-experience and engineering levels

• Preparing for a PPA - How to get a project prepared for and uploaded to a PPA

Blueprints and Specs

• HCI/MT-related plans for Ubuntu

• Canonical Multi-touch project planning

• Spec for the GEIS 1.0 API

• Spec for the GEIS 2.0 API

APIs

• The GEIS 1.0 API

Areas of Interest

• Multitouch/Dev/HCI - Human-Computer Interaction: it's not just touch! What does the future look like? What would we like to see?

• Multitouch/Dev/Gestures - Continued work on defining gestures for uTouch

• Multitouch/XDevelopment - XInput 2.1 spec implementation work for Natty

• Multitouch/Dev/AutoRotation - Discussions, notes, and eventually a development plan for auto-rotation support

• Multitouch/Dev/TouchInJS - Explorations in WebKit, thoughts of a JS API, and touch for web apps