= Apache James Community
:navtitle: Community

Apache James Project is an Open Source all-volunteer project obtaining its strength from its Community made of
developers and users. All are welcome to the Community!

== Join the community

There are many ways for Users, Developers, Curious and Fans to join and be part of the James Community:

 * https://james.apache.org/[Apache James Website]
 * xref:mailing-lists.adoc[Mailing lists]: Subscribe to the appropriate Mailing Lists according to your interests and profile.
 * https://gitter.im/apache/james-project[Gitter chat room]: Chat in live with the community on Gitter.
 * https://twitter.com/ApacheJames[Twitter]: Express yourself and follow us @ApacheJames.
 * https://github.com/apache/james-project[GitHub]: Read and contribute to the source code of the project.
 * https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/JAMES[JIRA]: Report issues or make suggestions for the project on our bug tracker.
 * https://builds.apache.org/job/ApacheJames/[CI]: Check the status of James builds on our Jenkins CI.
 * xref:download.adoc[Download releases]: Download artifacts and sources your need for the James Server and James libraries.
 * xref:support.adoc[Professional support]: Find a list of companies which can provide you some support on James.

== Contribute

James is a project that lives from the contributions of its community. *Anyone can contribute!*

That's right, we always want to hear from people with contributions to the code, the documentation, the website,
and bug reports. We more than welcome non-coding contributions.

You can find more information on how to contribute to the James project on the xref:contributing.adoc[contributing] section.

== Articles for contributors

** xref:website.adoc[]
** xref:release.adoc[]

== The Apache Software Foundation

James is a project belonging to the https://www.apache.org/[Apache Software Foundation [ASF\]]. Thus, the Apache Jame project
is governed by a number of xref:guidelines.adoc[guidelines] directly depending on the *ASF*.

If you wish to get more involved with the *ASF* community in general, those links might interest you as well:

 * https://www.apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.html[Get involved with the ASF]
 * https://www.apache.org/foundation/faq.html[Apache FAQ]
 * https://www.apache.org/licenses/[Apache Licenses]
 * https://www.apache.org/security/[The Apache security team]
 * https://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html[Sponsorship program]
 * https://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html[Sponsors list]
