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Get Involved!

Grails has a growing following and if you want to get involved the developers are all nice people (promise!) who are keen to have ideas, code and just about anything contributed. There are a number of ways to get involved with the Grails community, you can:

• Read Testimonials from Grails users who have experienced Grails first hand!
• Take a look at the Mailing lists archives and post new questions/ideas to the community!
• Grails.org is an open wiki and hence an ever growing knowledge base of information about Grails. Just click the "Edit" button at the top of this page!
• Get involved in the User Groups, the place where people meet to talk about Groovy and Grails.
• Come and chat to us on IRC at irc.codehaus.org where most Grails developers can be found in the #groovy room
• Write a Blog post about Grails, or even a Tutorial! Just talking about your experiences with Grails can either help others get involved or provide constructive feedback to the Grails team.
• Follow what is happening with Grails now and in the future with the Grails Issue Tracker and on the Roadmap. Or even better checkout the latest commits!
• Contribute your own Custom Tags that could eventually be included in Grails core!
• Post some ideas for new Grails features in the development Sandbox. This is the area we where play around with ideas before they are promoted into JIRA issues.
• Add one of the Grails buttons on the left to your site or blog to help spread the word about Grails
• Contribute yourself by becoming part of the Grails Team!
• Try out the Forums
• Don't miss the Second International Groovy and Grails eXchange. A 2 day 3 track conference, November 20th and 21st. Find out more here http://www.grails-exchange.com

Join a User Group

There are new Groovy/Grails user groups popping up all the time, below is a list of known user groups. If you run a user group add yours here:

Asia

• China Groovy/Grails User Group
• Indian Groovy & Grails User Group
• Japan Grails/Groovy User Group
• Korean Grails User Group
• Philippine Groovy/Grails Users Group
• Thai Grails User Group

Africa

North America

• Groovy & Grails Users of Minnesota
• Oakland (San Francisco Bay) Groovy and Grails Meetup Group
• Vancouver Groovy & Grails User Group

South America

• Grails Brasil
• Grails-BR - Brazilian Grails Discussion Group
• Grails-NE - Brazilian Northeastern Grails Discussion Group

Europe

• Germany, GGUG Hamburg
• Irish Groovy & Grails User Group
• Italian Grails User Group
• London Groovy/Grails User Group
• Nederlandse Groovy & Grails User Group
• Ukrainian Grails User Group

Australia

• Melbourne Groovy User Group
• Groovy Sydney