There is a very active Plone IRC chat room located at #plone on the Freenode IRC network. (The link will only work if your browser and IRC client supports it - either Mozilla with Chatzilla or Internet Explorer with mIRC installed.)

The founders of Plone are known as limi and runyaga, and operate on PST (USA) and CST (USA) timezones, respectively. Anyone with operator status is usually a Plone developer.

You can also use the plone.org web/java applet interface to directly connect to the chat server - Click here.

Some simple rules

• Please note that this is a volunteer service, so be polite - you won't get much help by being rude.
• Please do your research before you ask questions. Search the mailing lists for questions that have been asked in the past, and also use the search box in the top right with the Documentation pulldown selected before you ask.
• Also remember that the level of activity varies, so if you don't get help at once, stay online for a while. People will answer if they know, or ask for more details if they need it. Repeating the same question again and again won't help.
• Don't ask if you can ask a question - just ask it. We know why you are here. :)
• Don't send private messages to people unless they have asked you to - it's considered rude in the same way as telemarketing calls are. ;)
• Don't paste code into the chat room - use paste.plone.org and paste the URL of the result to the channel instead.
• Chances are that people have had the same challenges as you at some point - so following the above points will ensure a good experience, both for you and for us.