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 Framework development discussions and thorough bug reports are collected on [Issues](https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/issues).
 
-Contact [caffe-dev](mailto:caffe-dev@googlegroups.com) if you have a confidential proposal for the framework *and the ability to act on it*.
-Requests for features, explanations, or personal help will be ignored; post to [caffe-users](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/caffe-users) instead.
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-The core Caffe developers offer [consulting services](mailto:caffe-coldpress@googlegroups.com) for appropriate projects.
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 ## Acknowledgements
 
 The BAIR Caffe developers would like to thank NVIDIA for GPU donation, A9 and Amazon Web Services for a research grant in support of Caffe development and reproducible research in deep learning, and BAIR PI [Trevor Darrell](http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~trevor/) for guidance.