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Get help using Spark or contribute to the project on our mailing lists:
If you'd like your meetup added, email user@spark.apache.org.
The project tracks bugs and new features on JIRA. If you'd like, you can also subscribe to issues@spark.apache.org to receive emails about new issues, and commits@spark.apache.org to get emails about commits.
Our wiki has a list of projects and organizations powered by Spark.
Spark started as a research project at the UC Berkeley AMPLab in 2009, and was open sourced in early 2010. Many of the ideas behind the system are presented in various research papers. The AMPLab continues to perform research on both improving Spark and on systems built on top, such as Spark SQL, GraphX, and Spark Streaming.
After being released, Spark grew a developer community on GitHub and entered Apache in 2013 as its permanent home. A wide range of contributors now develop the project (over 300 developers from 50 companies).