It covers basic to advanced usage, packaging, developer features, and large HPC
deployments. You can do all of the exercises on your own laptop using a
Docker container.
See also:
Feel free to use these materials to teach users at your organization
*[Technical paper](http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/sc/2015/3723/00/2807623.pdf) and
about Spack.
[slides](https://tgamblin.github.io/files/Gamblin-Spack-SC15-Talk.pdf) on Spack's design and implementation.
*[Short presentation](https://tgamblin.github.io/files/Gamblin-Spack-Lightning-Talk-BOF-SC15.pdf) from the *Getting Scientific Software Installed* BOF session at Supercomputing 2015.
Get Involved!
Community
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Spack is an open source project. Questions, discussion, and
Spack is an open source project. Questions, discussion, and
contributions are welcome. Contributions can be anything from new
contributions are welcome. Contributions can be anything from new
packages to bugfixes, or even new core features.
packages to bugfixes, documentation, or even new core features.
### Mailing list
If you are interested in contributing to spack, join the mailing list.
We're using Google Groups for this:
*[Spack Google Group](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/spack)
### Slack channel
Spack has a Slack channel where you can chat about all things Spack:
*[Spack on Slack](https://spackpm.slack.com)
**Resources:**
[Sign up here](https://spackpm.herokuapp.com) to get an invitation mailed