Get Involved!

Grails has a growing following and if you want to get involved the developers are all nice people (promise!) who are keen to have ideas, code and just about anything contributed. There are a number of ways to get involved with the Grails community.

Keep up to date

Follow Burt Beckwith's "This week in Grails" blog (or subscribe to the news feed)
Follow Grails on Twitter

Communicate

Take part in the Mailing lists or Forums
Get onto the #grails IRC channel on irc.freenode.net
Join one of the User Groups
Meet up at a Hackergarten
Join the Grails User Group on LinkedIn
Join the Grails Group on Facebook
Have a Grails-based site? Add it to the web sites section!
Keep the Grails site up to date (it's an an open wiki - just click the "Edit" link)

Contribute

You can also contribute back to the project, for example by raising issues, improving the user guide or providing code patches. Any contributions are very welcome!

Other

Read Testimonials from Grails users who have experienced Grails first hand!
Come and chat to us on IRC at irc.codehaus.org where most Grails developers can be found in the #groovy room
Come and chat to other Grails users on IRC at irc.freenode.org in #grails
Write a Blog post about Grails, or even a Tutorial! Just talking about your experiences with Grails can either help others get involved or provide constructive feedback to the Grails team.
Look at other OpenSource Projects based on Grails or opensource your own project
Follow what is happening with Grails now and in the future with the Grails Issue Tracker and on the Roadmap. Or even better checkout the latest commits!
Contribute your own Custom Tags that could eventually be included in Grails core!
Post some ideas for new Grails features in the development Sandbox. This is the area where we play around with ideas before they are promoted into JIRA issues.
Add one of the Grails buttons on the left to your site or blog to help spread the word about Grails
Contribute yourself by becoming part of the Grails Team!
Are you web development company that uses Grails in your projects? Lets promote yourself on the Grails Development Firms page
Keep your skills up to date with GrailsMag
Attend a SpringSource training course to get up to speed with Grails quickly!

Attend a Conference

There are Groovy & Grails related conferences popping up all the time, below is a list of known event. If you know of or are organising a Groovy & Grails related conference, add it here:

Europe

Copenhagen, DK - GR8Conf Europe 2012, June 6-8

United States

Minneapolis, MN - GR8Conf US 2012, July 29-31

Australia

Asia

Delhi, India - IndicThreads Software Development Conference, July 13-14