# Communication

## Discord

Discord is used for day-to-day discussions, community support, and real-time collaboration.
Use [this invite link](https://discord.gg/lance) to join and say hi!

## GitHub Discussions

GitHub Discussions is used for development discussions, design proposals, public voting, and announcements.

## GitHub Issues

GitHub Issues is used for project issue tracking and roadmap posting.

## GitHub Pull Requests

GitHub Pull Requests is used for project code reviews and code contributions.

## Mailing Lists

There are two mailing lists used by Lance:

- [dev@lance.org](https://groups.google.com/a/lance.org/g/dev): Archive for discussions from GitHub Discussions (public)
- [private@lance.org](https://groups.google.com/a/lance.org/g/private): Private discussions, security and harassment issues reporting, voting (private, PMC only)

## Community Sync

We hold Lance community syncs every other Thursday at 9am PT. Everyone is welcome to attend! 

- Subscribe to the [Lance Format mailing list](https://groups.google.com/a/lance.org/g/dev) to receive the meeting invite
- Feel free to suggest discussion topics on the [meeting notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cP058pJLVjj39DGaFV5yHI6qyWBwp1B2YKyIwXzYlAI/edit?tab=t.0)
- Past recordings can be found [here](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQysAafL04jUgOj7j6mCE5fcZEBB9Amu9)

If you have issues seeing the calendar invite, please reach out via the mailing list or the [Lance discord](https://discord.gg/lance).