# Contributing to Poky

## Introduction

We're happy for people to experiment with Poky and there are a number of places to find help if you run into difficulties or find bugs. To find out how to download source code see the Obtaining Poky section of the Introduction.

## Bugtracker

Problems with Poky should be reported in the bug tracker.

## Mailing list

To subscribe to the mailing list send mail to:

    poky+subscribe <at> openedhand <dot> com

Then follow the simple instructions in subsequent reply. Archives are available here.

## IRC

Join #poky on freenode.

## Links

- The Poky website

- OpenedHand - The company behind Poky.

- OpenEmbedded - The upstream generic embedded distribution Poky derives from (and contributes to).

- Bitbake - The tool used to process Poky metadata.

- Bitbake User Manual

- Pimlico - A suite of lightweight Personal Information Management (PIM) applications designed primarily for handheld and mobile devices.

- QEMU - An open source machine emulator and virtualizer.