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			<h1>Community</h1>

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			Consul is a new project with a growing community. Despite this,
			there are active, dedicated users willing to help you through various
			mediums.
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			<strong>IRC:</strong> <code>#consul</code> on Freenode
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			<strong>Mailing list:</strong>
			<a href="https://groups.google.com/group/consul-tool">Consul Google Group</a>
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			<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.

			<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.
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						<h3>Armon Dadgar (<a href="https://github.com/armon">@armon</a>)</h3>
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						Armon Dagar is the creator of Serf. He researched and developed
						many of the internals of how Serf works, including the gossip
						layer. Armon is also the creator of
						<a href="https://github.com/armon/statsite">Statsite</a> and
						<a href="https://github.com/armon/bloomd">Bloomd</a>.
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						<h3>Mitchell Hashimoto (<a href="https://github.com/mitchellh">@mitchellh</a>)</h3>
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						Mitchell Hashimoto is the creator of Serf, and works on
						all layers of Serf from the gossip layer up to the CLI. In addition
						to Serf, Mitchell is the creator of
						<a href="http://www.vagrantup.com">Vagrant</a> and
						<a href="http://www.packer.io">Packer</a>. He is self described
						as "automation obsessed."
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