Contact Us / Getting Help
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We at LINCC Frameworks pride ourselves on being a friendly bunch!

If you're encountering issues, have some gnarly dataset, have ideas for
making our products better, or pretty much anything else, reach out!

* Open an issue in our GitHub repo for LSDB
    * https://github.com/astronomy-commons/lsdb/issues/new
* A lot of our communication and discussion is on LSST Discovery Alliance Slack. This is also a great location to ask questions. If you don't have an account for this Slack space, please get in touch to get an invite using information at this `link <https://astro.washington.edu/people/neven-caplar>`_.
    * `#lincc-frameworks-lsdb <https://lsstc.slack.com/archives/C04610PQW9F>`_
    * `#lincc-frameworks-qa <https://lsstc.slack.com/archives/C062LG1AK1S>`_
* If you have questions about HATS data from the Rubin Observatory, the best place to ask at LSST community forum:
    * `LSST Community Forum - Data Products <https://community.lsst.org/c/support/data/34>`_
* Attend one of our events. All of our events are open to everyone; and they are also published on the Google Calendar embedded below.
    *  Drop-in / co-working events
        * "HATS/LSDB Drop-in" - Drop-in co-working/office hours. Great for getting help or just working alongside our software engineers using HATS/LSDB. Fridays 10:00-11:00 AM US Pacific Time.
        * "LINCC Frameworks Office Hours" - General office hours for LINCC-maintained software and general software advice. Thursdays 10:00-11:00 AM US Pacific Time.
    * HATS/LSDB Working Groups and Tech Talks
        * "HATS/LSDB Working Group Demos" - Structured telecon with updates from developers and collaborators, and HATS standardization planning. Every 3rd Friday of the month, 10:00-11:00 AM US Pacific Time. Join the HATS/LSDB working group at `hats-wg@googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/g/hats-wg>`_ if you want email announcements and to participate in HATS standardization and LSDB development discussions.
        * "HATS/LSDB Europe Working group" - European time zone friendly discussion of HATS and LSDB. Every 4th Thursday of the month, 6:00-7:00 AM US Pacific Time.
        * `LINCC Tech Talk <https://lsstdiscoveryalliance.org/lsst-discovery-alliance-programs/tech-talks/>`_ - Tech Talk series to connect the Rubin software community.

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However you reach out, we want to make sure that any discourse is open and 
inclusive, and we ask that everyone involved read and adhere to the 
`LINCC Frameworks Code of Conduct <https://lsstdiscoveryalliance.org/programs/lincc-frameworks/code-conduct/>`_
