The Ballerina Community

We warmly welcome all contributors to the Ballerina community to help establish Ballerina as a truly community-owned resource!

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    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events
      • StackConf
        • Automatic Microservices Observability with Open-Source Programming Language: Ballerina
      • GIDS Live
        • Cloud Native Middleware as a Programming Language
      • GIDS Live
        • Automatic Microservices Observability with Open-Source Programming Language: Ballerina
      • Lunch & Learn
        • Ballerina: OS Cloud-native Programming Language
      • Open Source Summit Japan
        • Ballerina: An Open-Source Cloud-Native Programming Language
      • API World Virtual
        • Code to Kubernetes: Deployment Shouldn’t be an Afterthought
      • API World Virtual
        • Automatic Microservices Observability with Ballerina
      • Open Source Automation Days
        • Code to Kubernetes: Deployment Shouldn’t be an Afterthought
      • Cloud Colombo
        • Ballerina - A Cloud Native Programming Language
      • DeveloperWeek Global: Cloud
        • Code to Kubernetes: Deployment Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought
      • DeveloperWeek Global: Cloud
        • Code to Kubernetes: Languages of Infrastructure
      • Nova Code Camp
        • Let’s Dance Together! Ballerina
      • San Diego Cloud Native Computing Meetup
        • Ballerina – An Open-Source, Cloud-Native Programming Language for Microservices
      • Cloud DC Meetup
        • Cloud Native Development with Ballerina
      • DevOps Pro Europe 2020
        • [Talk] Code to Cloud
      • DevOps Pro Europe 2020
        • [Talk] Ballerina: The Cloud-Native and DevOps Friendly Programming Language
      • DevOps Pro Europe 2020
        • [Workshop] Ballerina: Cloud Native Middleware as a Programming Language
      • Kubernetes for Developers Meetup
        • Ballerinas & Zebras in Kubernetes
      • DeveloperWeek 2020
        • Conquering Network-Distributed Applications Using the Ballerina Programming Language
      • Cloud-Native and Kubernetes Meetup in Silicon Valley
        • An Introduction to the Ballerina Programming Language
      • Paris Open Source Summit
        • Ballerina - A Modern Cloud-based Open Source Programming Language
      • Downtown San Jose DevOps Meetup
        • Ballerina - A Programming Language for Cloud and DevOps
      • WSO2 Summit London
        • Ballerina — Cloud-native Middleware as a Programming Language
      • DeveloperWeek Austin
        • Microservices in Practice with Ballerina, Kubernetes and Istio
      • WSO2 Summit Bern
        • Ballerina — Cloud-native Middleware as a Programming Language
      • Java Colombo Meetup
        • The better java for Java microservice developers
      • API World
        • Efficient Microservices Deployment Pipelines
      • WSO2 Summit San Francisco
        • Ballerina — Cloud-native Middleware as a Programming Language
      • Columbus Microservices Meetup
        • Effective Microservices Development with Ballerina
      • Columbus Microservices Meetup
        • Ballerina in Real-World Use-Case
      • WSO2 Summit New York
        • Ballerina - Cloud Native Middleware as a Programming Language
      • ApacheCon North America 2019
        • Ballerina - Re-inventing Middleware in a Programming Language
      • ApacheCon North America 2019
        • Conquering Network Distributed Applications Using the Ballerina Programming Language
      • Cloud-Native and Kubernetes Meetup in Silicon Valley
        • An Introduction to the Ballerina Programming Language

The Ballerina community has been bootstrapped by WSO2 via sponsorship of the design & implementation of the Ballerina platform. Ballerina is a fully open source project with all source code licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 and the specifications licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.

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Join the Community Call

The Ballerina team is now hosting monthly recorded Community Calls! These are interactive meetings that will explore Ballerina use cases. These calls give you direct access to our Engineers and other community members to question or discuss about Ballerina and your projects.

Seek Help

We are happy to help! Come engage with us on any channel that works for you.

Report Issues

Report issues in the GitHub repositories of the areas and components listed below.

Help Us Grow

If you like the experience so far, help us to spread the word.

  • Star the Ballerina GitHub repo and show appreciation to the Ballerina maintainers for their work. Also, watch the repo to keep track of Ballerina issues. Thank you!

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  • Follow us on Twitter: @ballerinalang. Tweet with the “#ballerinalang” hashtag.
  • Share the wealth by publishing your Ballerina module on Ballerina Central so that the whole community can benefit from your work.
  • Write your own blog and submit it to be published in our community-driven Tech Blog.
  • Buzz us on contact@ballerina.io if you want to organize a local meetup or hackathon. WSO2 will get right on it and help with presentation/training content, logistics, swag, and some funds for munchies.
  • Download the Ballerina logo to use for content or swag.
  • Use the GitHub Action for the Ballerina CLI to wrap Ballerina commands inside GitHub Actions.

Contribute to Ballerina

Join us and contribute to the source code to make Ballerina better! To be aware of the ground rules as you start, see the Contribution Guide. Happy contributing!

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