--- page_title: "Community" description: |- Consul is a new project with a growing community. Despite this, there are active, dedicated users willing to help you through various mediums. --- <div class="container"> <div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-2"> <div class="bs-docs-section"> <h1>Community</h1> <p> Consul is a new project with a growing community. Despite this, there are active, dedicated users willing to help you through various mediums. </p> <p> <strong>IRC:</strong> <code>#consul</code> on Freenode </p> <p> <strong>Mailing list:</strong> <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/consul-tool">Consul Google Group</a> </p> <p> <strong>Bug Tracker:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues">Issue tracker on GitHub</a>. Please only use this for reporting bugs. Do not ask for general help here. Use IRC or the mailing list for that. </p> <p> <strong>Community Tools:</strong> <a href="/downloads_tools.html">Download Community Tools</a>. Please check out some of the awesome Consul tooling our amazing community has helped build. </p> <h1>People</h1> <p> The following people are some of the faces behind Consul. They each contribute to Consul in some core way. Over time, faces may appear and disappear from this list as contributors come and go. </p> <div class="people"> <div class="person"> <img class="pull-left" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/11ba9630c9136eef9a70d26473d355d5.png?s=125"> <div class="bio"> <h3>Armon Dadgar (<a href="https://github.com/armon">@armon</a>)</h3> <p> Armon Dadgar is the creator of Consul. He researched and developed most of the internals of how Consul works, including the gossip layer, leader election, etc. Armon is also the creator of <a href="https://github.com/hashicorp/serf">Serf</a>, <a href="https://github.com/armon/statsite">Statsite</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/armon/bloomd">Bloomd</a>. </div> </div> <div class="person"> <img class="pull-left" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/54079122b67de9677c1f93933ce8b63a.png?s=125"> <div class="bio"> <h3>Mitchell Hashimoto (<a href="https://github.com/mitchellh">@mitchellh</a>)</h3> <p> Mitchell Hashimoto is a co-creator of Consul. He primarily took a management role in the creation of Consul, guiding product and user experience decisions on top of Armon's technical decisions. Mitchell Hashimoto is also the creator of <a href="http://www.vagrantup.com">Vagrant</a>, <a href="http://www.packer.io">Packer</a>, and <a href="http://www.serfdom.io">Serf</a>. </p> </div> </div> <div class="person"> <img class="pull-left" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/2acc31dd6370a54b18f6755cd0710ce6.png?s=125"> <div class="bio"> <h3>Jack Pearkes (<a href="https://github.com/pearkes">@pearkes</a>)</h3> <p> Jack Pearkes created and maintains the Consul web UI. He is also a core committer to <a href="http://www.packer.io">Packer</a> and maintains many successful <a href="https://github.com/pearkes">open source projects</a> while also being an employee of <a href="http://www.hashicorp.com">HashiCorp</a>. </p> </div> </div> <div class="person"> <img class="pull-left" src="//www.gravatar.com/avatar/1e87e6016a7c4f4ecbd2517d84058467.png?s=125"> <div class="bio"> <h3>William Tisäter (<a href="https://github.com/tiwilliam">@tiwilliam</a>)</h3> <p>William Tisäter is a Consul core committer. He is also maintainer of <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pygeoip">pygeoip</a> and build things daily at <a href="https://tictail.com">Tictail</a>.</p> </div> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>