Thank you for checking out Ericsson's Exchange EWS Provider. Ericsson and the Ericsson QA team are grateful for the help and hard work of many [contributors][contributors] like yourself.
Exchange Calendar is an **add-on for Thunderbird and Lightning** that provides **Exchange calendar support**.
Current Release Vs. Download trend is something like [this](https://rawgit.com/muthusuba/github-tools/master/downloads-trend.html?user=Ericsson&repo=exchangecalendar)
Getting involved as a contributor
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We love working with contributors for Exchange EWS Provider, but it does require a few skills. You will need to know some Javascript, XUL, some CSS and a basic familiarity with GitHub.
If you know some Javascript, it's worth having a look at the Object Oriented Programming to understand the basic concepts of class based coding and especially for xul window objects.
If you need to brush-up on programming, but are eager to start contributing immediately, please consider helping us find bugs in Github [Exchange EWS Provider][Exchange EWS Provider] or find bugs in the Issues tested by the [EricssonQA][EricssonQA] team. To brush up on Javascript skills before engaging with us, Dive Into Javascript [mozilla][mozilla] is an excellent resource. W3schools also has [notes on Javascript][w3schools] available through their website. The programming concepts you will need to know include functions, working with classes, and some object-oriented programming basics. To brush up on XUL, Mozilla [XUL][XUL] is an easy and simple place to learn XUL, More of XUL are dynamically configured and cross-plateform.
Special thanks to all our [contributors][contributors]
While we take pains to keep our documentation updated, the best source of information is those of us who work on the project. We also have the [wiki][wiki] pages to answer your general questions about contributing to Exchange EWS Provider.
After you have installed [Git] you will need to clone the project to your hard drive. From your workspace directory run this command which will copy (clone) the project to your hard drive
This add-on is open-source and based on the work of many [contributors](https://github.com/ExchangeCalendar/exchangecalendar/graphs/contributors).
### Installing developement tools
You will need to install Dom Inspector, Javascript Debugger and some other development tools. Fortunately `Thunderbird addons` makes it easy to install all of these:
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cd ./exchangecalendar_master; chmod +x ./build.sh; ./build.sh;
Now you can install the Exchange EWS Provider addon
Writing Code
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If you want to get involved and add more code, then there's just a few things
we'd like to ask you to do:
1. Use the similar code format for all new developement and window objects