If you need help with RaphaelJS, here are some people and places that will prove invaluable.
The official sites for all the official information regarding RaphaelJS are:
Homepage: http://raphaeljs.com/
Manual and documentation: http://raphaeljs.com/reference.html
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RaphaelJS/
Source code: https://github.com/DmitryBaranovskiy/raphael/
A useful list of articles and tutorials for further reference and reading is as follows:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/using-svg-for-flexible-scalable-and-fun-backgrounds-part-i
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cross-platform-scalable-vector-graphics-with-svgweb/
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/an-introduction-to-the-raphael-js-library/: An introduction to the RaphaelJS Library, from net tuts+
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/: W3C SVG specification
http://www.irunmywebsite.com/raphael/additionalhelp.php#pagetop: An exhaustive list of RaphaelJS examples
http://inkscape.org/download/: A link for downloading Inkscape
Official RaphaelJS communities and forums:
Official forums: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/raphaeljs
User FAQ: http://raphaeljs.com/
Official RaphaelJS blog:
The blog of Dmitry Baranovskiy, the creator of RaphaelJS and various other libraries: http://dmitry.baranovskiy.com/
RaphaelJS tweets:
Follow RaphaelJS on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RaphaelJS/
For more open source information, follow Packt at http://twitter.com/#!/packtopensource