You can mail submissions for the Jargon File to jargon@snark.thyrsus.com.
We welcome new jargon, and corrections to or amplifications of
existing entries. You can improve your submission's chances of
being included by adding background information on user
population and years of currency. References to actual usage via
URLs and/or DejaNews pointers are particularly welcomed.
All contributions and suggestions about the Jargon File will
be considered donations to be placed in the public domain as part
of this File, and may be used in subsequent paper editions.
Submissions may be edited for accuracy, clarity and
concision.
We are looking to expand the File's range of technical
specialties covered. There are doubtless rich veins of jargon yet
untapped in the scientific computing, graphics, and networking
hacker communities; also in numerical analysis, computer
architectures and VLSI design, language design, and many other
related fields. Send us your jargon!
We are not interested in straight technical terms
explained by textbooks or technical dictionaries unless an entry
illuminates `underground' meanings or aspects not covered by
official histories. We are also not interested in `joke' entries
-- there is a lot of humor in the file but it must flow naturally
out of the explanations of what hackers do and how they
think.
It is OK to submit items of jargon you have originated if they
have spread to the point of being used by people who are not
personally acquainted with you. We prefer items to be attested by
independent submission from two different sites.
An HTML version of the File is available at
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon. Please send us URLs for materials
related to the entries, so we can enrich the File's link
structure.
The Jargon File will be regularly maintained and made
available for browsing on the World Wide Web, and will include a
version number. Read it, pass it around, contribute -- this is
your monument!
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