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* Update front page of docs to include more community resources, deprecate answers.

* Clean up fussy RST.

* Fix bad ref.

* Fussy whitespace nitpick.

* Reorganize and clarify.

* Changes to wording.

* remove prerelease.
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Contact
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.. _Using ROS Answers:
.. _Using Robotics Stack Exchange:

Support
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* :doc:`Marketing <The-ROS2-Project/Marketing>`

- Downloadable marketing materials
- `Information about the ROS trademark <https://www.ros.org/blog/media/>`__

Other ROS resources
-------------------
ROS community resources
-----------------------

* `ROS Answers <https://answers.ros.org/questions/>`__ (ROS 1, ROS 2)
If you need help, have an idea, or would like to contribute to the project, please visit our ROS community resources.

- Q&A community website, similar to `Stack Exchange <https://stackexchange.com/>`_
- See :ref:`Contact Page <Using ROS Answers>` for more information
* `Official ROS Discord Channel for discussion and support <https://discord.com/servers/open-robotics-1077825543698927656>`__ (ROS 1, ROS 2)

* `ROS Enhancement Proposals (REPs) <https://ros.org/reps/rep-0000.html>`__ (ROS 1, ROS 2)
* `Robotics Stack Exchange - community Q&A website <https://robotics.stackexchange.com/>`__ (ROS 1, ROS 2)

- Proposals for new designs and conventions
- See :ref:`Contact Page <Using Robotics Stack Exchange>` for more information

* `ROS Discourse <https://discourse.ros.org/>`__ (ROS 1, ROS 2)

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- Inspect a package's license, build type, maintainers, status, and dependencies
- Get more info for a package on `ROS Answers <https://answers.ros.org/questions/>`__

* `ROS Prerelease <http://prerelease.ros.org/>`__ (ROS 1)
* `ROS resource status page <https://status.openrobotics.org/>`__ (ROS 1, ROS 2)

- Check the current status of ROS resources like Discourse or the ROS build farm.

General ROS project resources
-----------------------------

* `ROS Enhancement Proposals (REPs) <https://ros.org/reps/rep-0000.html>`__ (ROS 1, ROS 2)

- Generates commands to emulate the `ROS Buildfarm <https://build.ros.org/>`_ on your local machine
- Currently only shows ROS 1 distributions
- Proposals for new designs and conventions

* `ROS Robots <https://robots.ros.org/>`__ (ROS 1, ROS 2)

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- ROS 1 and ROS 2 product landing page, with high-level description of ROS and links to other ROS sites

Events
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* `Official ROS Vimeo Channel <https://vimeo.com/osrfoundation>`__ (ROS 1, ROS 2)

- Videos of ROSCon Talks, community and working group meetings, and project demos.

* `ROSCon website <https://roscon.ros.org/>`__ (ROS 1, ROS 2)

- ROSCon is our annual ROS developer conference.
- This page also lists regional ROS events like ROSConJP and ROSConFr.

* `Open Source Robotics Foundation official events calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/[email protected]&ctz=America/Los_Angeles>`__

- This calendar is for official OSRF Events and working group meetings.
- `Submit your events here <https://bit.ly/OSRFCalendarForm>`__.

* `Open Source Robotics Foundation community calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_3fc5c4d6ece9d80d49f136c1dcd54d7f44e1acefdbe87228c92ff268e85e2ea0%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FLos_Angeles>`__

- This calendar is for unofficial ROS community events.
- `Submit your events here <https://bit.ly/OSRFCommunityCalendar>`__ .

Miscellaneous
-------------
* `Purchase official ROS swag <https://spring.ros.org/>`__

* ROS on social media

- `@OpenRoboticsOrg <https://twitter.com/OpenRoboticsOrg>`__ and `@ROSOrg <https://twitter.com/ROSOrg>`__ on Twitter
- `Open Robotics on LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/open-source-robotics-foundation>`__

* Visit the `Open Source Robotics Foundation website <https://www.openrobotics.org/>`__

- Tax deductible charitable donations to the Open Source Robotics Foundation can be sent via `DonorBox. <https://donorbox.org/support-open-robotics?utm_medium=qrcode&utm_source=qrcode>`__

Deprecated
^^^^^^^^^^
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* `ROS Answers <https://answers.ros.org/questions/>`__ (ROS 1, ROS 2)

- ROS Answers was the ROS community Q&A website, until August, 2023. ROS Answers is currently available as a read-only resource.

* `ROS 2 Docs <https://docs.ros2.org>`_

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