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<p>Want to contribute to the Metal<sup>3</sup> Project? Here's everything you need to know.</p>
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    <h2 class="mk-heading mk-heading--xl mk-m-border">About Metal<sup>3</sup> Community</h2>
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<p>The Metal<sup>3</sup> community is an open-source community dedicated to the advancement of the Metal<sup>3</sup> project, a Kubernetes-based solution for managing bare metal infrastructure as code. Leveraging Kubernetes and tools like Ironic, Metal<sup>3</sup> allows users to treat physical machines like virtual machines, simplifying provisioning, management, and scalability of bare metal resources.</p>

<p>If you want to learn more about the Metal<sup>3</sup> community or get involved in the project, you can visit their official community page at <a href="/community-resources.html">Community Resources</a>.</p>
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<li>Familiarize yourself with the <a href="https://github.com/orgs/metal3-io/repositories">Metal<sup>3</sup> repositories</a> on GitHub.</li>
<li>Follow the documentation to set up your <a href="https://book.metal3.io/developer_environment/tryit.html">development environment</a>. This will allow you to test your changes locally before submitting them.</li>
<li>Join <a href="https://zoom.us/j/97255696401?pwd=ZlJMckNFLzdxMDNZN2xvTW5oa2lCZz09">community calls</a> and <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/metal3-dev">mailing list</a> to engage in discussions with the members of the metal3 community.</li>
<li>Join <a href="https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/contributor/contributing.html">Ironic Community</a> for steps on how to contribute.</li>
<li>Check out <a href="/community-resources.html">community resources</a> page to find out more.</li><br>
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  <li>Review existing issues, feature requests, and ongoing discussions to find areas where you can contribute.</li>
  <li>Introduce yourself and be patient while waiting for your PR to be reviewed.</li>
  <li>If it's your first time contributing, look for issues with <em>good first issue</em> labels.</li>
  <li>Ask questions and seek clarifications when needed.</li><br>
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    <li>Review the Metal<sup>3</sup> project's existing <a href="https://github.com/issues?q=archived%3Afalse+user%3Ametal3-io+is%3Aissue+sort%3Acreated-asc+is%3Aopen+">issues</a>.</li>
    <li>Review <a href=" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/">Ironic Bugs</a> to contribute to the Ironic project.</li>
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