---
permalink: /community/user-groups/index.html
title: "User Groups"
description: "Find local Godot user groups run by community members."
layout: default
---

{% include header.html %}

<main>
	<div class="head">
		<div class="container flex eqsize">
			<div class="main">
				<h1 class="intro-title">User Groups</h1>
				<p class="small">
					Some community members manage local Godot user groups.
					Anyone is welcome to join or create a local community!
				</p>
			</div>
		</div>
	</div>
	<div class="container">

		<link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/leaflet/leaflet.css">
		<script defer src="/assets/leaflet/leaflet.js"></script>
		<script>
			const points = {{ site.data.communities | jsonify }};
			const countryCoordinates = {
				// Full country name: [latitude, longitude]
				// Use <https://latitude.to/> to find GPS coordinates.
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				'Argentina': [-38.4192641, -63.5989206],
				'Brazil': [-14.240073, -53.180502],
				'Bulgaria': [42.60740, 25.48566],
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				'China': [35.486703, 101.901875],
				'Croatia': [45.815399, 15.966568],
				'Czech Republic and Slovakia': [50.073658, 14.418540],
				'Ecuador': [-1.160171, -78.432915],
				'Finland': [62.777754, 26.199539],
				'France or French-speaking': [47.824905, 2.618787],
				'Germany': [51.133481, 10.018343],
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				'Italy': [42.504154, 12.646361],
				'Iran': [32.4207423, 53.6830157],
				'Iraq': [33.223191, 43.679291],
				'Israel': [31.53131, 34.86677],
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				'South Korea': [36.638392, 127.6961188],
				'Spain': [40.2085, -3.713],
				'Sweden': [64.964875, 17.675409],
				'Taiwan': [23.44265, 120.50237],
				'Turkey': [39.908606, 32.784806],
				'United States': [39.78373, -100.44588],
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						case "'": return '&apos;';
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			window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
				const bounds = L.latLngBounds(L.latLng(90, -180), L.latLng(-90, 180));
				const myMap = L.map('community-map', {
					// Show the whole world (centered around Europe) when loading.
					center: [40, 0],
					zoom: 3,
					maxBounds: bounds,
					maxBoundsViscosity: 1,
				});

				L.tileLayer('https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', {
					attribution: '&copy; <a href="https://openstreetmap.org/copyright">OpenStreetMap contributors</a>',
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					minZoom: 2,
					maxZoom: 18,
					noWrap: true,
					bounds,
				}).addTo(myMap);

				// The icon to use for physical venues.
				const physicalIcon = L.icon({
					iconUrl: '/assets/leaflet/images/physical-marker-icon.webp',
					iconRetinaUrl: '/assets/leaflet/images/physical-marker-icon-2x.webp',
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					iconAnchor: [12, 41],
					shadowUrl: '/assets/leaflet/images/marker-shadow.png',
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					shadowAnchor: [13, 41],
					popupAnchor: [1, -34],
					tooltipAnchor: [16, -28],
				});

				// Object with country names as key, array of points as value.
				const onlinePoints = {};

				// Flatten the object while looping over it.
				Object.keys(points).forEach((country, index) => {
					points[country].forEach((point, index2) => {
						// Store the country so we can get the coordinates for online communities.
						point.country = country;
						if (point.coordinates) {
							// Physical community.
							const marker = L.marker(point.coordinates, {
								title: point.name,
								icon: physicalIcon,
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            <strong>${escapeXml(point.name)}</strong><br>
            ${point.links.map((link) => ` <a href="${escapeXml(link.url)}">${escapeXml(link.title)}</a>`)}
          `).openPopup();
							marker.addTo(myMap);
						} else {
							// Online community.
							// We only want one marker per country (with a merged tooltip, see below).
							// Therefore, we don't add the marker here directly.
							if (!onlinePoints[point.country]) {
								onlinePoints[point.country] = []
							}

							onlinePoints[point.country].push(point);
						}
					});
				});

				// Add markers for online communities with merged tooltips.
				Object.keys(onlinePoints).forEach((country, index) => {
					if (countryCoordinates[country] == null) {
						console.warn(`Coordinates of "${country}" are missing, skipping.`);
						return;
					}

					let markerPopup = '';
					onlinePoints[country].forEach((point, index2) => {
						// Add a line separation between online communities.
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            ${point.links.map((link) => ` <a href="${escapeXml(link.url)}">${escapeXml(link.title)}</a>`)}
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						title: country,
					});
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					marker.addTo(myMap);
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		</script>

		<h2 class="title">Community map</h2>
		<p>
			This map lists all physical venues and online community hosted by community members.
			Scroll down to view a list of online communities.
		</p>
		<div id="community-map" style="height: 35rem"></div>
		<p>
			<!-- Color legend. -->
			<span
				style="display: inline-block; width: 0.75rem; height: 0.75rem; border-radius: 50%; background-color: #b7422c; margin-right: 0.4rem"></span>
			Physical community
			<span
				style="display: inline-block; width: 0.75rem; height: 0.75rem; border-radius: 50%; background-color: #257eca; margin-right: 0.4rem; margin-left: 1.5rem"></span>
			Online community
		</p>


		{% for country in site.data.communities %}
		<h3 class="title">{{ country[0] }}</h3>
		<ul>
			{% for community in country[1] %}
			<li>
				{{community.name }}
				({% for link in community.links %}<a href="{{ link.url }}" target="_blank">{{ link.title }}</a>{% unless
				forloop.last %}, {% endunless %}{% endfor %})
			</li>
			{% endfor%}
		</ul>
		{% endfor %}


		<p style="margin-top: 4rem">
			If you run a local community and would like to have it listed here,
			please send an email to <em>webmaster at godotengine · org</em>
			or open a pull request on GitHub modifying the
			<a href="https://github.com/godotengine/godot-website/blob/master/_data/communities.yml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
				<code>_data/communities.yml</code> file
			</a>.
		</p>
	</div>
</main>
{% include footer.html %}