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The official XBMC website.
The XBMC forums offers help and support for both end-users, developers, skinners and graphics-designers (English only!).
IRC channel: #XBMC (on Freenode network), official support/chat on IRC (English only!).
XBMC @ SourceForge.NET, the Official XBMC Project page (English only!).

Xbox-Scene.com's XBMC-community-forums, unofficial/independent XBMC help and support forum (English only!).

XBMC Magazine (www.xbmc.fr), french XBMC fan-site and community-forums (French only)
XBMC Russia (www.xbmc.ru), russian XBMC fan-site and community-forums (Russian only)
XBMC Netherlands (www.xbmcfreak.nl), Dutch XBMC fan-site and community-forums (Mainly Dutch)

We don't link to the two old Xbox skin sites here because they are mostly outdated and unmaintained to the degree where they now spread malware :/

XBMC News Blog (http://xbmc.blogspot.com), unofficial/independent fan-site with XBMC news (English). No updates since Dec 2007.

Open source projects that XBMC depends on (if you help/support or contribute these projects then you indirectly help/support XBMC):

MPlayer - XBMC A/V playback core is based upon the MPlayer for Linux Project
FFmpeg - XBMC uses FFmpeg codec suite to decode and view DivX, JPG, etc.
libdvdnav - XBMC uses libdvdnav from this project to display/navigate DVD-Video menus
libCDIO - XBMC uses this library to read ISO 9660, CDDA and parse CD/DVD images
libmpeg2 - XBMC uses the libmpeg2 codec library to decode MPEG 1/2 & VOB
libvorbis - XBMC uses the libvorbis codec library to decode OGG audio
libmad - XBMC uses the libmad codec library to decode MP3 audio
libdca (formaly libdts) - XBMC used the libdca codec library to decode DTS audio in software
xiph - XBMC uses the xpih codec library to decode Theora Video (VP3)
MikMod - XBMC uses this library from this project to playback Tracker Mod's

LZO - XBMC uses the LZO library to compress/decompress XBMC skin textures
FiBidi - XBMC uses FriBidi Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm library to flip sibtitles
FileZilla - XBMC uses FileZilla FTP server from this project
GoAhead WebServer XBMC uses the libGoAhead for XBMC built-in WebServer
Python - XBMC has a limited ported version of the Python framework for scripts

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 ===Unofficial XBMC community sites/pages===
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 *[http://xbmc.blogspot.com XBMC News Blog (http://xbmc.blogspot.com)], unofficial/independent fan-site with XBMC news (English). No updates since Dec 2007.
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