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  Consul is a new project with a growing community. Despite this, there are active, dedicated users willing to help you through various mediums.
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			<h1>Community</h1>

			<p>
      Consul is a new project with a growing community. Despite this,
			there are active, dedicated users willing to help you through various
			mediums.
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			<p>
				<strong>Chat:</strong> <a href="https://gitter.im/hashicorp-consul/Lobby">Consul on Gitter</a>
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			<strong>Mailing list:</strong>
			<a href="https://groups.google.com/group/consul-tool">Consul Google Group</a>
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			<strong>Bug Tracker:</strong>
			<a href="https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues">Issue tracker
				on GitHub</a>. Please only use this for reporting bugs. Do not ask
			for general help here. Use IRC or the mailing list for that.
      </p>
      <p>
        <strong>Community Tools:</strong>
        <a href="/downloads_tools.html">Download Community Tools</a>. Please
        check out some of the awesome Consul tooling our amazing community has
        helped build.
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      <p>
        <strong>Training:</strong>
        Paid <a href="https://www.hashicorp.com/training.html">HashiCorp training courses</a>
        are also available in a city near you. Private training courses are also available.
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			<h1>People</h1>
			<p>
			The following people are some of the faces behind Consul. They each
			contribute to Consul in some core way. Over time, faces may appear and
			disappear from this list as contributors come and go.
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						<h3>Armon Dadgar (<a href="https://github.com/armon">@armon</a>)</h3>
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						Armon Dadgar is the creator of Consul. He researched and developed
						most of the internals of how Consul works, including the
						gossip layer, leader election, etc. Armon is also the creator of
						<a href="https://www.serf.io">Serf</a>,
						<a href="https://github.com/armon/statsite">Statsite</a>, and
						<a href="https://github.com/armon/bloomd">Bloomd</a>.
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						<h3>Mitchell Hashimoto (<a href="https://github.com/mitchellh">@mitchellh</a>)</h3>
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						Mitchell Hashimoto is a co-creator of Consul. He primarily took
						a management role in the creation of Consul, guiding product
						and user experience decisions on top of Armon's technical decisions.
						Mitchell Hashimoto is also the creator of
						<a href="https://www.vagrantup.com">Vagrant</a>,
						<a href="https://www.packer.io">Packer</a>, and
						<a href="https://www.serf.io">Serf</a>.
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						<h3>Jack Pearkes (<a href="https://github.com/pearkes">@pearkes</a>)</h3>
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						Jack Pearkes created and maintains the Consul web UI.
						He is also a core committer to
						<a href="https://www.packer.io">Packer</a> and maintains
						many successful
						<a href="https://github.com/pearkes">open source projects</a>
						while also being an employee of
						<a href="https://www.hashicorp.com">HashiCorp</a>.
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						<h3>Ryan Uber (<a href="https://github.com/ryanuber">@ryanuber</a>)</h3>
						<p>
						Ryan Uber is a core contributor to Consul where he works on all
						facets of Consul. He is also a core committer to
						<a href="https://www.serf.io">Serf</a>,
						<a href="https://www.nomadproject.io">Nomad</a>, and
						the Consul tools ecosystem, all while being an employee at
						<a href="https://www.hashicorp.com">HashiCorp</a>.
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						<h3>James Phillips (<a href="https://github.com/slackpad">@slackpad</a>)</h3>
						<p>
						James Phillips is a core contributor to Consul where he works on all
						facets of Consul, including network tomography and prepared
						queries. He is also a core committer to
						<a href="https://www.serf.io">Serf</a> and
						the Consul tools ecosystem, all while being an employee at
						<a href="https://www.hashicorp.com">HashiCorp</a>.
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						<h3>Seth Vargo (<a href="https://github.com/sethvargo">@sethvargo</a>)</h3>
						<p>
						Seth Vargo is a contributor to Consul, but his main focus is the
						<a href="https://www.consul.io/downloads_tools.html">Consul tools ecosystem</a>.
						He is also a core committer to
						<a href="https://www.vagrantup.com">Vagrant</a>,
						<a href="https://www.packer.io">Packer</a>, and
						<a href="https://www.vaultproject.io">Vault</a>, and many more
						open source projects, all while being an employee at
						<a href="https://www.hashicorp.com">HashiCorp</a>.
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						<h3>William Tisäter (<a href="https://github.com/tiwilliam">@tiwilliam</a>)</h3>
						<p>William Tisäter is a Consul core committer. He is also the maintainer of
						<a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pygeoip">pygeoip</a> and builds things daily at
						<a href="https://tictail.com">Tictail</a>.</p>
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						<h3>Ryan Breen (<a href="https://github.com/ryanbreen">@ryanbreen</a>)</h3>
						<p>
						Ryan Breen is a Consul committer. He is also the maintainer of
						<a href="https://github.com/Cimpress-MCP/git2consul">git2consul</a>,
						<a href="https://github.com/Cimpress-MCP/fsconsul">fsconsul</a>, and
						<a href="https://github.com/Cimpress-MCP/gosecret">gosecret</a>.
						Ryan works at <a href="http://www.cimpress.com">Cimpress</a>
						building infrastructure for mass customization of consumer goods.
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