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+<html>
+<head>
+<title>How you can Help</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+<h2>How you can Help</h2>
+<p><b>You like rsyslog and would like to lend us a helping hand?</b> This page 
+tells you how easy it is to help a little bit. You can contribute to the project 
+even with a single mouse click! If you could pick a single item from the 
+whishlist, that would be awfully helpful!</p>
+<p>This is our whishlist:</p>
+<ul>
+	<li>let others know how great rsyslog is<ul>
+		<li>rate us at <a href="http://freshmeat.net/rate/52985/">freshmeat.net</a> 
+		and <a href="http://www.icewalkers.com/vote.php?ID=2420">icewalkers.com</a></li>
+		<li>spread word about rsyslog in forums and newsgroups</li>
+		<li>place a link to <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com">www.rsyslog.com</a> 
+		from your home page</li>
+	</ul>
+	</li>
+	<li>let us know about rsyslog - we are eager for feedback<ul>
+		<li>tell us what you like and what you not like - so that we can include 
+		that into development</li>
+		<li>tell us what you use rsyslog for - esepcially if you have high 
+		traffic volume or an otherwise &quot;uncommon&quot; deployment. We are looking for 
+		case studies and experience how rsyslog performs in unusual scenarios.</li>
+		<li>allow us to post your thoughts and experiences as a &quot;user story&quot; on 
+		the web site (so far, none are there ;))</li>
+	</ul>
+	</li>
+	<li>if you know how to create packages (rpm, deb, ...)<ul>
+		<li>we would very much appreciate help with package creation. We know 
+		that it is important to have good binary packages for a product to 
+		spread widely. Yet, we do not have the knowledge to do it all ourselfs.
+		<a href="mailto:rgerhards@adiscon.com">Drop Rainer a note </a>if you 
+		could help us out.</li>
+	</ul>
+	</li>
+	<li>if you are a corporate user<ul>
+		<li>you might consider <a href="http://www.adiscon.com">Adiscon</a>'s 
+		commercial <a href="http://www.monitorware.com/">MonitorWare products</a> 
+		for Windows, e.g. to deliver Windows Event Log data to rsyslogd (sales 
+		of the commercial products funds the open source development - and they 
+		also work very well).</li>
+		<li>you might be interested in
+		<a href="http://www.adiscon.com/Common/en/Products/techsup.php">
+		purchasing professional support or add-on development</a> for rsyslog</li>
+	</ul>
+	</li>
+</ul>
+<p><b>We appreciate your help very much.</b> A big thank you for anything you 
+might do!</p>
+
+</body>
+</html>
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 relay chains while at the same time being very easy to setup 
 for the novice user.</p>
 <p>Visit the <a href="status.html">rsyslog status page</a> to obtain current
-version information and ports.</p>
+version information and ports. <b>If you like rsyslog, you might want to lend us 
+a helping hand. </b>It doesn't require a lot of time - even a single mouse click 
+helps. Learn <a href="how2help.html">how to help the rsyslog project</a>.</p>
 <p><b>Follow the links below for the</b></p>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="rsyslogd.man.txt">rsyslogd man page</a>