# Welcome to Pentaho Data Integration: Kettle Project

Spoon v3.2

Pentaho Data Integration delivers powerful Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) capabilities using an innovative, metadata-driven approach. You are currently using Spoon, the graphical designer for Pentaho Data Integration Jobs and Transformations. If you are new to Pentaho Data Integration, please use the links below to learn more and become active in the community.

# Get started!

## Documentation Links

- What's new in Pentaho Data Integration 3.2?
- Spoon User Guide
- Steps documentation
- Job entries documentation
- Pan User Guide
- Kitchen User Guide
- Carte User Guide
- Frequently Asked Questions
- The community plugins page

## Community Links

- Community forum - Live discussion on design, features, configuration, and issues
- Pentaho Data Integration Home Page - News, case studies, weekly tips and more
- Downloads - Download the latest product releases and documentation
- Pentaho Data Integration JIRA tracking - Pass along defects and enhancement requests to the developers
- Wiki - Pentaho Data Integration - Latest documentation updates on Pentaho Data Integration

## Pentaho Blogs

- Matt Casters on Data Integration - Pentaho Chief of Data Integration and founder of the Kettle project
- Julian Hyde's blog - Julian is Lead developer of the Mondrian open-source OLAP engine for Pentaho
- James Dixon - The Pentaho Chief Geek On open source BI
- Mike Tarallo - Pentaho's open source BI Guru - BI in the heads of people
- Wayne Johnson - Business Intelligence in Real Life (Pentaho)
- Will Gorman - Pentaho developer / superstar
- Thomas Morgner - Reporting tales from the Pentaho Reporting Wizard
- Gretchen Moran and the Pentaho nation
- Nicholas Goodman on Business Intelligence - Musings on reporting, OLAP, ETL, and more
- Samatar Hassan - Let’s talk about Open Source (Français)
- Andrés Chaves - BI/DWH architect and open source fan
- Luc Boudreau - The Dev Donkey blog - Random thoughts between two carrots