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# Google App Engine Community

Welcome to the Google App Engine developer community! A number of community resources are already available for App Engine that you can begin using today. We're excited to share these with you, and we invite you to get involved in these channels and contribute your own knowledge and experience back to the community.

## Forums

We've established a set of discussion groups/mailing lists to help you find answers to your technical issues as well as enabling you to share your latest tips and tricks and projects with the greater App Engine developer community. Each group has a particular purpose, summarized below.

- Google App Engine General Discussions
- Google App Engine Go Discussions
- Google App Engine Python Discussions
- Google App Engine Java Discussions
- Google App Engine Downtime Notifications

#### Before posting

Before submitting your post, please try the following:

1. Read the official FAQs and Community FAQs. The most commonly-asked App Engine questions are already addressed in these lists.
2. Enter one or more keywords of your question in the search input at the top of this page. Relevant results from the documentation pages on Google Code as well as App Engine articles and blog entries will be returned.
3. Search the mailing list archives to see whether your questions have already been discussed.
4. Read the discussion group charter which highlights the community guidelines.

## Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow has a dedicated Google App Engine community answering questions using the google-app-engine tag in a Q&A format.

## IRC Chat Time

Every first and third Wednesday of the month, the App Engine team hosts IRC Chat Time, an opportunity for you to get answers to your App Engine-related questions in real-time. The schedule is as follows:

- Every first Wednesday of the month from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. PDT
- Every third Wednesday of the month from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. PDT

These chat sessions take place on the #appengine channel on irc.freenode.net. You can use Freenode Web IRC client to easily connect through your browser.