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title: "Community | Grafana Tempo documentation"
description: "Participate in and contribute to the Tempo open source community."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Community

If you are interested in distributed tracing, consider participating and contributing to the [open source Tempo project](https://github.com/grafana/tempo).

Want to learn more about open source communities? Read David Allen’s blog post, [What makes a good open source community?](/blog/2023/09/01/what-makes-a-good-open-source-community/) on the Grafana website.

## Communicate

- [Grafana Slack](https://slack.grafana.com/) #tempo channel
- [Community Forum](https://community.grafana.com/c/grafana-tempo/40) - for questions/feedback.
- [Community Call](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yGsI6ywU-PxZBjmq3p3vAXr9g5yBXSDk4NU8LGo8qeY/edit) - Monthly on the second Thursday at 1630 UTC. Recordings available [online](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDGkOdUX1Ujqe8WZ8T1h2pNjpll0t-KLw).

## Contribute

This page lists resources for developers who want to contribute to the Tempo software ecosystem.

- [Governance](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md)
- [Contributing](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
- [License](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/blob/main/LICENSE)