Community

Make the Inkscape community your own by participating - there are many ways to join in!

User Support and Discussion

You're new here and want to ask us a question? The easiest ways to get in touch quickly are to:

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Get in Touch with the Inkscape Community (project-maintained communication channels)

Mailing Lists

There are several mailing lists serving the Inkscape user community.

Mailing lists are a good way to keep updated on what's going on in the project, and to discuss specific topics (including "Big Picture" stuff) where discussions are expected stretch over a few days or weeks. There's an archive of each list where past and ongoing discussions can be searched.

Forums

Visit us in the official Inkscape Forum!

This is the correct place for everything ranging from beginners questions, over questions and discussions related to advanced Inkscape functionality, to showcasing the artwork you just created.

Chat via RocketChat

For live chat visit our RocketChat instance which provides an easy-to-use web interface.

This is the correct place if you need a quick answer, want some guidance for some specific task (like compiling or translating Inkscape), or simply want to have a casual chat.

Chat via IRC

Historically we've been using IRC for live chat. There are two channels (both on libera.chat):

  • #inkscape for general questions and user discussion
  • #inkscape-devel for development-related and more technical discussion

These two high-traffic channels are also synced inside RocketChat (see inkscape_user and team_devel in RC) via inkchatbot, so you can participate in your preferred way and don't need to join both.

There's even a third way to access these channels directly from within the website (via Kiwi IRC) if you don't want to create a RocketChat account and don't have an IRC client, see Users Chat and Developer Chat.

Gallery

Check out the Inkscape Gallery for content created by the Inkscape community.

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