Community portal
Community portal
Internet relay chat channel
The internet relay chat (IRC) channel #RepRap on freenodes is a fairly active community gathering point for many RepRappers. If you need specific help or want to get involved the IRC channel is a good place to do so.
If you are unfamiliar with IRC you can use your internet browser. Just click http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=reprap to join the channel.
Community forum
The RepRap community forum has a lot of information of current RepRap community events. It is a good place to get in touch and collaborate with RepRappers across the world. There is a certain amount of redundancy in the forum and IRC but it seems to work out.
Helping out
Development
The RepRap project is community driven so helping out can be as simple as making a new extension and blogging about it or posting it in the Development Catalog.
Documentation
Lets face it, the documentation is sloppy and you've probably got some ideas on how to fix that. Go for it! This mediawiki is open to edit, if you run into troubles or aren't sure how to edit the pages you see here check out the help page (although that page is also a bit of a mess.. seems a bit of a cyclic problem).
You can find more info on the RepRap documentation and the tasks that need be done at the RepRapWiki:Wiki Administration portal.
There is also potentially some interest in doing some RepRap Collaborative Publications however it might be best to ask around on IRC or the forums to see if anyone is currently interested.
Donations
Donations are always appreciated and go towards helping out the Core RepRap Team
- RepRap Donation Page
- RepRap CafePress Shop for mugs, tee shirts, mouse mats and the like
Blogs and Resources
RepRapper Blogs
- Reprap Aggregation Pipe ( aka Blog of Blogs ) <- best place to find all the RepRap blog updates
- Core Team Blog - A official blog of the RepRap Core Team
- Builders Blog - A second RepRap blog for the RepRap community
- Links and Blogs - A collection of links to different blogs and websites which deal directly with RepRap, or are of Interest to RepRappers.
Contributers
- The Core Team consists of active members in the RepRap community that run the server, organize releases, review the documentation and - often as not - design parts of the RepRap machine and its software.
- RepRap contributers can also be found on the Acknowledgments page