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The Exponential community: taking part, channels, events, the code of conduct and contributing.

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Community: start here The landing page for Exponential Community members - the people who use, contribute to, promote and develop software using Exponential worldwide. Where the community meets, how to get help and give it, the ways to… AdvocatesSupportersSponsorsCommunity Community
What the Exponential Community is Who belongs to the Exponential Community, what its members do, the organizations inside it, what the community is not, and what the sources do not say about it. AdvocatesSupportersCommunity Community
Partners, community and ecosystem The three circles of people around Exponential - partners, the community and the greater ecosystem - in the project's own words, how they overlap, and how a person or a company moves from one to the next. PartnersAdvocatesCommunityEcosystem Community
Your first week in the community Seven days, one small step a day - from reading the code of conduct to making your first contribution - for anyone who is new to the Exponential Community. AdvocatesSupportersCommunity Community
Community reading path The order in which to read the community section of the Exponential help - a core path of ten pages for every community member, and short extra paths for contributors, helpers, organizers and companies. AdvocatesSupportersCommunity Community
Community FAQ Short answers to the questions people ask about the Exponential Community - joining, cost, where to ask, contributing without code, the CLA, conduct, events, official status, recognition, and the difference between the… End usersAdvocatesSupportersCommunity Community
Community glossary The words community members meet around Exponential - from CLA, dev-main and eZpedia to manifest, partner, Share, squash and tag - each explained in one or two sentences with a link to the page that says more. End usersAdvocatesSupportersCommunity Community
Community checklists Checklists for Exponential community members to copy - before posting, before filing a bug, before a pull request, before answering, before publishing an extension, and before running an event. DevelopersAdvocatesSupportersCommunity Community
A free site for your user group Give your local Exponential user group or meetup a website that costs nothing and that several organizers can keep up to date - edited in Exponential, published to GitHub Pages under the group's own account. DevelopersAdvocatesSupportersCommunity Community
Joining the community The landing page of the joining part of the community section - where people meet, how to introduce yourself, how to ask a question that gets answered, how to get help step by step, how to stay informed, and the code of… End usersAdvocatesSupportersCommunity Community
Where the community meets Every place the documentation names where Exponential Community members meet - forums, Telegram, Discord, Slack, eZpedia, Projects, GitHub and the help itself - with what each is good for and which to choose for your… End usersAdvocatesSupportersCommunity Community
Introducing yourself to the community How to introduce yourself in the Exponential forums or chats - what to say, what to leave out, a template to copy, and how to reply when someone else introduces themselves. AdvocatesSupportersCommunity Community
Asking a good question How to ask a question in the Exponential forums or chats so that someone can answer it in one reply - search first, describe the goal, include the environment from the system card, show what you tried, and close the… EditorsAdministratorsDevelopersEnd usersCommunity Community
Getting help step by step The order in which to look for help with Exponential - the help in your administration, the documentation, the community, the issue trackers, and paid support from 7x or a partner - with what each step can and cannot… EditorsAdministratorsEnd usersCustomersCommunity Community
Staying informed How community members keep up with Exponential - releases and changelogs, the history chronicle, GitHub notifications, Packagist, the commit feed on the developers' landing page, and where announcements are discussed. AdministratorsDevelopersHosting companiesCommunity Community
Contributing as a community member The landing page of the contributing part of the community section - every way a community member can contribute to Exponential, what each needs, the copyright assignment (CLA) for kernel code, how review works, and… DevelopersAdvocatesSupportersCommunity Community
Ways to contribute Every way a community member can contribute to Exponential, compared by the skills and time each needs and the difference it makes - from confirming a bug to maintaining an extension. EditorsAdministratorsDevelopersDesignersSupportersCommunity Community
Your first contribution Three small first contributions to Exponential, step by step - a corrected help page through Edit on GitHub, a well-made bug report through the Report an error page, and a first pull request with the right commit… EditorsDevelopersSupportersCommunity Community
Filing a bug as a community member How to file a bug in Exponential so it gets fixed - choosing the right tracker, searching first, the parts of a good bug description, a safe summary of the installation, and what happens after you file it. EditorsAdministratorsDevelopersEnd usersCommunity Community
Contributing code as a community member The workflow for a code contribution to the Exponential kernel from a community member's point of view - fork, branch, coding standards and naming prefixes, prefixed commit messages, the file manifest, tests, the CLA… DevelopersSupportersCommunity Community

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