List of communities, development links, JSoC, events, (un)conferences, forums/ meetup groups, NEWS, social networks, etc..

COMMUNITY

The Julia community is distributed over various communication mediums. Smaller Special Interest Groups (SIGs) have their own mailing lists and github orgs, linked in the respective sections. You can join them on:

IRC :: #julia channel on irc.freenode.net for live chats, and
Mailing lists ::
- julia-users : Community support for programming discussions.
- julia-dev : For core development discussions
- julia-jobs : Post Julia jobs here.

NEWS from social networking communities, QA sites and Twitter.

Contributing to Julia core development

To contribute to the Julia language, read the how-to contribute page, the sections on continuous integration and git hooks and the links to (open) BUGS on Github:

Documentation bugs.
The up for grabs label on Github. PS: Not all the bugs tagged thus are meant for newbies to programming.
Bug #9493 for more comprehensive test coverage. Check out the coveralls page for a quickview of ToDo tests.
IainNZ lists Ways to contribute to the Julia ecosystem

For development news, see the following links :

NEWS :: Track the Julia release notes, changes, new language features, library improvements,...
2014 GSoC project ideas page. Add the project ideas with a brief description, then make pull request.
ThisWeekInJulia :: A blog detailing major updates and changes to the Julia language.

CONFERENCES

The official Julia conference.

JuliaCon

Info:: The annual Julia conference is a technical conference where community members from around the world come together to learn and share information about the latest trends and technologies in Julia development. The code running the website is at juliacon.github.io.
Date & Venue:: TBA
CFP:: Registration page.
Diversity:: TBD?
Past JuliaCons : 2015June24-28@Cambridge-MA ; 2014Jun26-27@Chicago-IL.

JSoC

Program:: Julia Summer of Code (JSoC) will run from 2015Jun15-Sep15 and the projects will be similar in scope and nature to that of GSoC. It is open to anyone willing to commit three months to a project, although preference will be given to students. If you have a project you'd like to propose, write up an description and send an email to juliasoc@googlegroups.com for feedback and approval. See the thread on the user group and the blog post.
FinAid:: Compensation is similar to GSoC - USD5500.00
Deadline:: 2015Jun01.

Julia User Groups

Local meetup groups located in the various continents around the world.

Asia- CHINA

Beijing Julia Programming Language Meetup.

Asia-INDIA

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Bangalore Julia User Group.

Asia-JAPAN

Tokyo Julia User Group

Asia-SINGAPORE

2015June05 :: Tutorial on High Performance Cloud Computing Technologies: Julia & OpenTuner, Alan Edelman, Saman P. Amarasinghe, and Jiahao Chen. Register here