Discord
Our real time mode of conversation with users and community members is through Discord. We aim to keep the vibe chill and the tone respectful, but we appreciate all kinds of ideas, links to cool articles or projects, and questions or support requests.GitHub Discussions
Whenever possible, we try to bring feature and bug conversations to GitHub Discussions. Not only does this help “walk the walk” by handling problems or opportunities in an open forum, it has a lot of potential benefits for other users who might be experiencing or thinking similar things. This is also where we post changelog items, drawing attention to notable improvements or feature updates (these are also fed into our website for convenience).GitHub Enhancements & Milestones
We track our planned work through enhancements, which are sort of like epics for us. These are regularly reviewed and chunked into milestones, which help us create a monthly “release” cycle. Milestones have names, which are chosen to honor innovative or interesting people such as Dolores Huerta and John Blankenbaker. You can see previous milestones here. We ship all the time, but communicate broadly with a monthly rhythm that includes our email newsletter, community huddle, and meetups.Monthly Community Huddles
Each month we host a public community meeting. These function like open office hours, usually with Datum engineers showing their work or a relevant guest presenting on an interesting topic. Feel free to stop in, ask questions, bring ideas, or just listen.- You can view all of our upcoming events, including the monthly huddle, over here
- Registration through Luma (linked for each event) helps you keep it on your calendar!