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title: Community
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  <h1>Community</h1>
  <p>
    Prometheus is developed in the open. Here are some of the channels we use
    to communicate and contribute:
  </p>
  <p>
    <strong>IRC:</strong>
	<a href="https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#prometheus"><code>#prometheus</code></a> on <a href="http://freenode.net/">irc.freenode.net</a>
  </p>
  <p>
    <strong>Mailing list:</strong>
    <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/prometheus-developers">prometheus-developers</a> Google Group
  </p>
  <p>
    <strong>Twitter:</strong>
    <a href="https://twitter.com/PrometheusIO">@PrometheusIO</a>
  </p>
  <p>
    <strong>Issue tracker:</strong> We use the GitHub issue tracker for the various <a href="http://github.com/prometheus">Prometheus repositories</a>
  </p>
  <h1>Contributing</h1>
  <p>
    We welcome community contributions! Please see the
    <code>CONTRIBUTING.md</code> file in the respective Prometheus repository
    for instructions on how to submit changes. If you are planning on making
    more elaborate or controversial changes, please discuss them on the mailing
    list before sending a pull request.
  </p>
  <h1>Commercial support</h1>
  <p>
    This is a list of third-party companies which provide support or
    consulting services for Prometheus. Prometheus is an independent open source
    project which does not endorse any company.
  </p>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.robustperception.io">Robust Perception</a></li>
  </ul>
  <h1>Acknowledgements</h1>
  <p>
    Prometheus was initially started by
    <a href="http://www.matttproud.com">Matt T. Proud</a> and
    <a href="http://juliusv.com">Julius Volz</a>. The majority of its
    development has been sponsored by <a href="https://soundcloud.com">SoundCloud</a>.
  </p>
  <p>
    We would also like to acknowledge early contributions by engineers from
    <a href="https://www.docker.com/">Docker</a> and <a href="http://www.boxever.com/">Boxever</a>.
  </p>
  <p>
    Special thanks to <a href="https://digitalocean.com/">DigitalOcean</a> for providing hosting resources.
  </p>
  <p>
    The Prometheus logo was contributed by <a href="http://www.makingstuffmove.com/">Robin Greenwood</a>.
  </p>
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