# Community

Since its launch in 2016, Open Policy Agent has steadily gained momentum as the de facto approach for establishing authorization policies across cloud native environments. Its remarkable growth and adoption is due in no small part to the amazing community that has grown up right along side it. Leverage this list of community resources to maximize the value OPA can provide!

## Social Channels

Twitter
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Medium
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## Community Support

Slack
Casual conversations with the OPA community.
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GitHub
Get involved with OPA development. Request a feature, file a bug, or just check out the open source code base.
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OPA Knowledge Base
Community powered support for OPA and Rego. Ask questions about writing Rego files, implementing OPA, or share the configurations you are working on.
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Stack Overflow
Ask the global developer community questions about OPA with the tag #open-policy-agent
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## Champions

Charlie Egan
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John Reese
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Grant Shively
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Masayoshi Mizutani
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## Contribute

Meetup
Host a localized meetup in your area or virtually. Share what you’ve learned and connect with the OPA community.
Host a Meetup
Blog Post
Contribute to the official OPA blog. Write about special use cases, advance configurations, deployment strategies or the OPA community.
Email
Conference and Meetup CFPs
Want to share your OPA knowledge with the world? The OPA team is here to help. Let us know and we can review, suggest edits or help you practice.
Write A CFP

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