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JMRI: What you can do to help

We get e-mails directly and through the JMRI Yahoo User Group daily asking: "What can I do to help?"

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If you have the time, it would be really helpful to have your active help improving the program's usability. We need help with writing up examples of almost everything! If you'd be willing to take something you've recently done and walk through it again, writing down all the steps & what they did, it would be quite useful.

For example, a walk-through of how to adjust the settings on a sound decoder while running it on the track.

Or how to set the start voltage of a locomotive so it starts to move when the throttle does.

Or even something like checking out a newly installed decoder.

People tend to say "Well, the stuff I do is so basic, everybody must know how to do it". But a lot of people hesitate to even start, and having something step-by-step written down can be very helpful in getting them started.