Community news | September 16, 2020

Come chat with us! Introducing our new Slack channel

The django CMS project now has a Slack channel.

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The django CMS project now has a Slack channel. The channel was created for all topics around Django CMS and the django CMS Association. Here you can ask questions about django CMS, talk to others about django CMS or just hang out with us. We are happy about everyone who joins the channel: Join Slack channel

Dropped support for Gitter and IRC

With the introduction of Slack as our go-to chat tool, we also announce that from now on we no longer supportgitter as a chat tool. Furthermore there will be no support for theIRC channel anymore.

Below you will find an overview of all channels, where the django CMS community meets and interacts. If we have forgotten one, please write it in the comments. We will then include it. Thank you!

Overview of our active channels

Slack Official support chat & hangout place
Google User Group User related questions
Google Dev Group Dev related questions
Stackoverflow Support questions
Github Contributions
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