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#### Contact the **user community**

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The Octave user community is a loosely organized association of **volunteers**.
Your interactions with the community will be better if you have the
[right expectations about the support options]({{ "support-expectations.html" | relative_url }})
available to you.
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- [**Discourse**]({{ site.discourse_url }}) &mdash;
  the main chat portal for Octave users and developers.
- **IRC**: Chat with users and developers on the
  [Freenode `{{ site.irc_channel }}` channel](https://webchat.freenode.net/#octave).
- Browse the
  [**mailing list archives**](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-octave/).
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#### Get [**commercial support**]({{ "commercial-support.html" | relative_url }})

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- Setup assistance
- Custom feature implementation
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#### Read the **GNU Octave Manual**

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- [Web version]({{ site.docs_url }})
- [PDF version]({{ "octave.pdf" | relative_url }})
- Type `doc` inside Octave
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#### Browse the [Octave Wiki]({{ site.wiki_url }})

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- Read [Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)]({{ site.faq_url }})
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