<p>Please follow the installation instructions carefully.
After extracting the distribution, you can find the HTML version of the
installation document in qgis/doc/index.html. The installation document is
also available as PDF in the same directory.</p>
<h2>Help us</h2>
<p>Please submit bug reports using the <ahref="https://hub.qgis.org/">QGIS bug tracker</a>.
When reporting a bug, either login or, if you don't have a qgis trac, provide
an email address where we can request additional information.</p>
<h2>Support</h2>
<p>You can get support in the following ways:</p>
<ul>
<li>Using the QGIS community site at http://qgis.org </li>
<li>Joining the <ahref="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user">qgis-users mailing list</a></li>
<li>Using IRC by joining the <ahref="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#qgis">#qgis</a> channel on irc.freenode.net. Please wait around for a response to your question as many folks on the channel are doing other things and it may take a while for them to notice your question.</li>
<li>Join the <ahref="https://gitter.im/qgis/QGIS?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge">Gitter</a> chat.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Contribute</h2>
<p>QGIS is on GitHub at https://github.com/qgis/QGIS. If you wish to contribute
patches you can <ahref="https://help.github.com/forking/">fork the project</a>, make your changes, commit to your
repository, and then <ahref="http://help.github.com/pull-requests/">issue a pull request</a>. The development team can then
review your contribution and commit it upstream as appropriate.
If you commit a new feature, add [FEATURE] to your commit message AND give a clear description of the new feature. A webhook will automatically create an issue on the QGIS-Documentation repo to tell people to write about it.</p>
<p>If you are not a developer, there are many other possibilities which do not require programing skills to help QGIS to evolve. Check our <ahref="http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/index.html">project homepage for more information</a>.</p>