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Communication
This sections allows you to:
- Ask questions and get prompt responses from the community
- Build up your persona in the community as a contributing member
- Stay up to date on the active discussions in the community
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
While working with OpenStack, IRC is the best way to get real time
help or support others. Details of how to get on IRC are described in
setup-irc.
Wiki Pages
Each project and working group has its own wiki page. Wiki pages are a secondary source of information. They hold information that is subject to more change than the info provided in the project's documentation i.e. meeting agendas, team members, etc.
Etherpads and Ethercalcs
Etherpad is a simple collaborative text editor. It is used as a common place to have people in a project collaborate on larger projects and planning of events. There is no master list of etherpads - it is harder to find what you are looking for without having looked at it before or without asking for the URL. It is recommended to bookmark the important etherpads for later reference. The starting page of the OpenStack Etherpad is this.
Ethercalc is a simple collaborative spreadsheet. It works in a similar way as Etherpad, but it is more useful to facilitate distributed booking or scheduling of resources. The starting page of OpenStack Ethercalc is here.
Mailing Lists (ML)
There are more than 40 different ML's. These are listed in the mailman page. Mailing lists are a way for people to communicate to a larger group than those that are on IRC. All emails on these lists are archived and available on the Mailing Lists wiki. The same page describes how to subscribe to a list and describes some popular lists.
ask.openstack.org
Ask OpenStack is a question and answer site for OpenStack users and developers. It provides answer to almost every question a new contributor can run into. It is possible to collect karma points by asking or answering questions. The questions are moderated by Ask OpenStack users with high Karma points. More info about Ask OpenStack is available on its about page and on the ask moderators wiki.