Pure Data is a free open source software. As such, it has a strong and diverse community of people around it: media artists, developers, researchers, musicians, ... organized around a principal mailing list of 2000 subscribers, forums in differents languages or local groups in several cities. The philosophy is to help, exchange and emulate each other, so don't hesitate to browse this section to discover more about it.

Discussing with the community

• mailing lists - all of the various lists related to Pd. Subscribe to them to discuss or browse the archives.
• forums - Different forums online discussing about Pure Data in several languages
• IRC - Chat rooms about Pd

Physical meetings

• conventions - Documentation on the international Pd conventions
• local groups - Link up with other Pd-ers in meatspace to swap techniques.

Social Network

• Vimeo group – Pure Data vimeo group
• Flickr group – Pure Data Flickr group
• Twitter – Search Twitter for puredata
• Facebook - Pure Data Facebook group

Member contents

• patches - share your creations here
• tracks - (art, GEM pictures, flash-installations)
• list of projects - Projects should be listed here in the home folders of Portal Members, even as a link so just search the site.