Get Involved

Interested in helping the Chapel project grow?

Here are some ways to get involved and help nurture the Chapel community:

Easy Actions

• Star the project on GitHub
• Follow us on social media
• Subscribe to our YouTube channel
• Like, repost, and amplify Chapel content you appreciate
• Attend weekly project and/or deep-dive meetings
• Attend the monthly educators meeting
• Ask questions on Chapel discussion forums
• Invite a Chapel community member to…
  • speak at a seminar you’re involved with
  • run a demonstration for your group
  • take part in an interview on your blog/podcast
• Propose some other way to get involved

Use Chapel

• Download and install Chapel
• Compile and run sample codes:
  • from the examples/ directory of your installation
  • from the website’s front page
  • from the examples page and repo
• Reach out to a Chapel developer to explore pair-programming code patterns of interest
• Learn Chapel
• Write your own applications in Chapel
• Report any bugs you encounter or feature requests you wish for as GitHub issues
• Share your work with the community by
  • mentioning it on Discord
  • doing a 5-minute demo in our weekly project meeting
  • proposing a longer introduction in a weekly deep-dive meeting
  • proposing and writing a Chapel blog post
  • submitting a talk to ChapelCon
  • contributing the code back as a Mason package, example, or test¹

Help Improve Chapel¹

• Improve or extend Chapel’s documentation by editing its sources
• Improve the Chapel website
• Add, improve, or extend Chapel’s standard or package library modules
• Check open Chapel issues for ones labeled good first issue or easy / straightforward
• Browse Chapel’s documentation for contributors
• Compare, analyze, and improve Chapel performance relative to other approaches
• Conduct and publish original research relating to Chapel
• Port Chapel to, support it on, or package it for a new platform
• Help improve the Chapel compiler and/or runtime

Help Fund Chapel

• Fund work you’d like to see done on, or in, Chapel through:
  • development and/or support contracts
  • the Linux Foundation