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	<h1>Meet the Scrapy community</h1>
	<p>Scrapy has a healthy and active community. Check the places where you can get help and find the latests Scrapy news.</p>
	<a class="gsoc-link" href="http://gsoc2015.scrapinghub.com/ideas/"><i class="fa fa-flag"></i> Scrapy will be in GSoC 2015, check the ideas and participate!</a>

	<div class="community-box">
		<h2>Getting involved <br />and contributing</h2>
		<a href="https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy">
			<i class="fa fa-github"></i>
		</a>
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		<p>
			If you want to get involved and contribute patches or help documenting, start by reading <a href="http://doc.scrapy.org/en/{{ devel.rtd }}/contributing.html">Contributing to Scrapy</a>.
			All development happens on the <a href="https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy">Scrapy Github project</a>.
		</p>
		<a href="https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy">
			<button>Contribute now</button>
		</a>
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	<div class="community-box">
		<h2>Mailing list and <br />IRC Channel</h2>
		<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users">
			<i class="fa fa-envelope-o"></i>
		</a>
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		<p>
			Feel free to subscribe to our <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users">mailing list:</a>
		</p>
		<form action="http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users/boxsubscribe">
			<input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Your e-mail here">
			<input type="submit" value="Go">
		</form>
		<p>
			You can also join <span class="highlight">#scrapy IRC Channel at Freenode</span> to chat with other Scrapy users& developers,  via <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=scrapy">browser</a> or any <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients">IRC client</a>.
		</p>
	</div>

	<div class="community-box">
		<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/scrapy">
			<h2><i class="fa fa-stack-overflow"></i> StackOverflow</h2>  
		</a>
		<hr />
		<p>
			There is a healthy community providing Scrapy help on Stack Overflow, along with the core developers. The <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/scrapy">scrapy tag</a> has around 2,7k questions. If Stack Overflow is your preference, <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask">ask your question there</a>.
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	</div>

	<div class="community-box">
		<a href="https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/wiki">
			<h2><i class="fa fa-file-text-o"></i> The Scrapy Wiki</h2>  
		</a>
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		<p>
			<a href="https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/wiki">The Scrapy wiki</a> contains a compilation of many community resources such as articles, blog posts, video & text tutorials, slides and talks.
		</p>
	</div>

	<div class="community-box">
		<a href="http://snipplr.com/all/tags/scrapy/">
			<h2><i class="fa fa-code"></i> Code snippets</h2>  
		</a>
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		<p>
			Snipplr is very popular for sharing useful Scrapy code snippets. Check out the <a href="http://snipplr.com/all/tags/scrapy/">scrapy tag on Snipplr</a>.
		</p>
	</div>

	<div class="community-box">
		<a href="http://twitter.com/ScrapyProject">
			<h2><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i> Scrapy tweets</h2>  
		</a>
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		<p>
			<a href="http://twitter.com/ScrapyProject">Follow Scrapy on Twitter</a> to be notified of project progress, people using it, blog mentions, job offers, and other Scrapy news.
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		<div class="block-left">
			<a href="http://doc.scrapy.org/en/{{ stable.rtd }}/faq.html">
			<h2 class="float"><span class="regular">Having trouble? We'd love to help!</span> <br />
			Check the FAQ.</h2>
			</a>
			<p>For specific information you can check<br />
			<a href="http://doc.scrapy.org/en/{{ stable.rtd }}/genindex.html">
			<i class="fa fa-external-link"></i>
			<span class="big-font">The Index</span>
			</a>
			or
			<a href="http://doc.scrapy.org/en/{{ stable.rtd }}/py-modindex.html">
			<i class="fa fa-external-link"></i>
			<span class="big-font">The Module Index</span>
			</a>
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		<div class="block-right">
			<a href="../support/">
			<h2><span class="regular">Commercial support?</span> <br /> Meet the Scrapy pros</h2>
			 <img src="../img/scrapy-pros.png" />
			</a>
			<p><span class="big-font">Who is using Scrapy?</span> <br />
			<a href="../companies/">Find companies and products that use Scrapy</a>.</p>
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