conda-forge documentation
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What is conda-forge?
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conda-forge is a community effort and a GitHub organization which contains repositories of conda recipes and thus provides conda packages for a wide range of software. 
The built distributions are uploaded to `anaconda.org/conda-forge <https://anaconda.org/conda-forge>`__ and can be installed with `conda <https://conda.pydata.org/docs/intro.html>`_. 

**Missing a package that you would love to install with conda?**

Chances are we have already packaged it for you. You can `search <https://anaconda.org/>`__ for packages online. Look out for packages provided by our ``conda-forge`` organization.

**Cannot find a package or only outdated versions of a package?** - Everybody is welcome to contribute to our package stack!

- We value all kinds of contributions — not just code. A few recommended ways to start contributing to conda-forge are:

 - `Contribute new packages <https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/adding_pkgs.html>`__
 - Help update and `maintain packages <https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/updating_pkgs.html#maintaining-pkgs>`__
 - Suggest or implement improvements for our `infrastructure <https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/infrastructure.html#infrastructure>`__
 - Help `improve the documentation <https://conda-forge.org/docs/user/contributing.html#improve-docs>`__
 - For a detailed overview please refer to :ref:`becoming_involved`.

- To see our governance policies, see `here <https://conda-forge.org/docs/orga/governance.html>`_.

- If you find bugs, need help, or want to talk to the developers, use our mailing lists or chat rooms:

  - `GitHub issues <https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues>`_
  - `Element chatroom <https://app.element.io/#/room/#conda-forge:matrix.org>`_
  - `Discourse group <https://conda.discourse.group>`_
  - `Mailing list (archived) <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/conda-forge>`_


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   user/00_intro
   maintainer/00_intro
   orga/00_intro
   misc/00_intro
   contracting/00_intro