I would like to contribute and i think that a chat room of some sort, like gitter or slack would make it easier for people to pitch ideas, get help while contributing to the project, or just making it easier to ask short questions regarding the mod.

As stated in the Issue template you removed, we have a discord chat room located here: https://discord.gg/v4geqgA

or #buildcraft on espernet irc

there's a discord, it's under "Links" on the website

there is one: https://discord.gg/v4geqgA

fyi: that link was also in the issue template when you created that issue

On the buildcraft website there is a link to our Discord chat room, perhaps that would be useful?

ok, thanks.