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<span id="id1"></span><h1>Communication<a class="headerlink" href="#communication" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p><strong>About the contributors</strong></p>
<p>The group of contributors is full of experts, software engineers and core
developers but also full of users, learners and enthusiasts that love doing
what we do and we want to spread this enthusiasm to you also.</p>
<p>We all have silly questions and we all need help lots of times.
We encourage you to be open to communication and we will help as much as
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<p>Due to the scale of the project which includes many languages, everybody
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seasoned C++ developer will need to ask basic questions about R for example.</p>
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<span id="id2"></span><h3>GitHub<a class="headerlink" href="#github" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>Different options of communicating are provided through GitHub where the project
is hosted. What we use are GitHub Issues and Pull Requests.</p>
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<li><p><strong>propose a new feature</strong>,</p></li>
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<p>There is also a <strong>biweekly developers sync call</strong> that anyone is welcome to join.
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<p>More information and links for subscribing to the mailing lists <a class="reference external" href="https://arrow.apache.org/community/">can be found here</a>.</p>
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<h3>Recommended learning resources<a class="headerlink" href="#recommended-learning-resources" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>To find articles on concepts important to Arrow as well as recommended books for
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