XBMC has tremendous community interest and has spawned at least three forks for different platforms (Raspmc, OpenELEC, and an Android and hardware-level version for the Pivos XIOS DS). The community is ever changing, but there are some people and places you'll want to know.
- Nate Thomas—the lead on the XBMC project. Nate does all the update information on the XBMC site. Nate can be found on the freenode XBMC channel as well as on Twitter.
- Sam Nazarko—the lead on the Raspbmc project, author of Raspberry Pi Media Center by Packt Publishing, and Crystalbuntu developer on top of being a first year Kings College student.
- http://xbmc.org/: The main website for XBMC is updated regularly. The official XBMC downloads are available here as well as galleries of different skins, and links to the wiki, forums, and bug reporting sites.
- http://www.raspbmc.com/: Raspbmc is a specialized XBMC Linux distribution for the ultra cool, low cost, and tiny profile Raspberry Pi computer. This site has an active community with some really innovative Pi case designs by community members. The site owner, Sam Nazarko also happens to be the author of Raspberry Pi Media Center, Packt Publishing.
- http://openelec.tv/: OpenELEC is an embedded XBMC Linux distribution designed to run on small embedded devices based on Atom, ION, Intel, or Fusion chipsets.
- https://www.facebook.com/XBMC: The official XBMC Facebook fan page
- https://twitter.com/XBMC: Follow XBMC on Twitter
- https://plus.google.com/+XBMC/posts: Hang out with the official XBMC crew and fans on Google+
- https://www.facebook.com/raspbmc: Raspbmc Facebook fan page
- https://twitter.com/SamNazarko: Sam Nazarko on Twitter
- https://www.facebook.com/OpenELEC: OpenELEC Facebook page
- https://twitter.com/openelec: Follow OpenELEC on Twitter
- https://plus.google.com/+openelec/posts: Hang out with OpenELEC on Google+
- http://wiki.xbmc.org/: The official XBMC wiki.
- http://forum.xbmc.org/: The official XBMC forums.
- http://trac.xbmc.org/: XBMC's Trac based bug tracker.
- #xbmc on irc.freenode.net: The very active XBMC channel on Freenode IRC. There are normally about 500 plus people on the channel at any given time.
- http://www.raspbmc.com/wiki/: Raspbmc wiki.
- http://forum.stmlabs.com/: Raspbmc forums.
- http://wiki.openelec.tv/: OpenELEC wiki.
- http://openelec.tv/forum: OpenELEC forums.
- XBMC on the Pivos XIOS DS media play embedded Android computer. A good source for development news about XBMC on Android and the Pivos XIOS DS can be found at http://www.pivosforums.com/viewforum.php?f=24.
- Sam Nazarko's Raspberry Pi Media Center book found at http://www.packtpub.com/raspberry-pi-media-center/book.
- A site for third-party XBMC add-ons can be found at http://www.xbmchub.com/.
- XBMC repository on GitHub can be found at https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc.
- Sam Nazarko's technology blog where he writes about Linux, Windows, hardware, and other tech-related topics found at http://stmlabs.com/.
- Create bootable Linux USB keys on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X with the UNetbootin tool at http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
- FileZilla cross-platform FTP/SFTP tool at https://filezilla-project.org/
- The popular open source Video Lan Client multimedia program supports a large range of codecs and works on a number of hardware platforms found at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
- BubbleUPnP Android Universal Plug and Play application on the Google store can be found at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubblesoft.android.bubbleupnp
- 8player, a Universal Plug and Play application for iOS on the Apple iTunes store, can be found at https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/8player/id375860275?mt=8
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