# Salt Community Resources

Join the Salt!

There are many ways to participate in and communicate with the Salt community.

Salt has an active IRC channel and a mailing list.

## Mailing List

Join the salt-users mailing list. It is the best place to ask questions about Salt and see whats going on with Salt development! The Salt mailing list is hosted by Google Groups. It is open to new members.

Additionally, all users of Salt should be subscribed to the Announcements mailing list which contains important updates about Salt, such as new releaes and security-related announcements. This list is low-traffic.

## IRC

The `#salt` IRC channel is hosted on the popular LiberaChat network. You can use the LiberaChat webchat client right from your browser. Logs of the IRC channel activity are also available.

If you wish to discuss the development of Salt itself join us in `#salt-devel`.

## Follow on Github

The Salt code is developed via Github. Follow Salt for constant updates on what is happening in Salt development:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt

Long-term planning and strategic decisions are handled via Salt Enhancement Proposals and can be found on GitHub.

## Blogs

The Salt Project keeps a blog with recent news and advancements:

https://saltproject.io/blog/

## Example Salt States

The official `salt-states` repository is: https://github.com/saltstack/salt-states

A few examples of salt states from the community:

- https://github.com/blast-hardcheese/blast-salt-states

- https://github.com/kevingranade/kevingranade-salt-state

- https://github.com/uggedal/states

- https://github.com/mattmcclean/salt-openstack/tree/master/salt

- https://github.com/rentalita/ubuntu-setup/

- https://github.com/brutasse/states

- https://github.com/pcrews/salt-data

## Follow on ohloh

https://www.ohloh.net/p/salt

## Other community links

- Salt Project

- Subreddit

- YouTube

- Twitch

- Facebook

- Twitter

- Wikipedia page

- Stack Overflow

## Hack the Source

If you want to get involved with the development of source code or the documentation efforts, please review the contributing documentation!