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= Ask Fedora =
[http://ask.fedoraproject.org Ask Fedora] is a community knowledge base and support forum and designed to be the primary place for community support in Fedora.  It is powered by [https://discourse.org Discourse].


{{Admon/note | Please note, we are not a support or help line for Fedora Project. We will not answer any software or hardware specific questions. If you need a help on specific software or hardware, please use fedora-list or Fedora Forum!}}
== Communicate ==


== Introduction ==
If you have any feedback on Ask Fedora, you can directly post a comment or question to the site in the [https://askbeta.fedoraproject.org/c/site-feedback Site feedback] category. You can file tickets here on our [https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join/issues?tags=C%3A+AskFedora Pguare instance] also.


Fedora has a strong community of people helping each other in the [http://forums.fedoraforum.org/? Fedora Forum]  and [https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list fedora-list]  but have you always wanted to ask a question to Fedora developers but weren't sure whom to ask? A new feature for the next release of Fedora? Any big picture questions of general interest to Fedora users?
You can find us using [[How_to_use_IRC|IRC]] on {{fpchat|#fedora-ask}}.


If so, we have just the right solution for you. Send your questions to askfedora@fedoraproject.org and [[NewsProject |Fedora News Team]] will bring you answers from the right places to selected number of questions every week as part of our weekly news report. Please indicate
== Admins and Moderators ==
if you do not wish your name and/or email address to be published.


[[FWN |Fedora Weekly News]] is published every week and is announced in [https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list fedora-announce-list] .
Admins and moderators of Ask Fedora are at expected to be logged in at {{fpchat|#fedora-ask}}.


Thank you for your contributions and support.
== Guidelines for Ask Fedora users ==


== General Guideline ==
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ask_fedora_guidelines


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== Participate ==
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Users will receive following auto-response from fedora-news-list when an email sent to askfedora@fedoraproject.org:
You can participate by asking questions or answering them in http://ask.fedoraproject.org,


* [[AskFedora/AutoResponse]]
= History =


== Questions and Answers ==
[[User:Sundaram| Rahul Sundaram]] has explained the history of the project [https://mether.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/the-case-for-ask-fedora/ here].  He initiated an earlier effort for editors to interface with developers and directly answer user questions as part of the Fedora Weekly News.  This effort didn't scale and is now defunct. The following are for historical record.
 
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* [[FWN/Issue162#AskFedora |2009-02-09]]
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Revision as of 18:45, 9 March 2019

Ask Fedora is a community knowledge base and support forum and designed to be the primary place for community support in Fedora. It is powered by Discourse.

Communicate

If you have any feedback on Ask Fedora, you can directly post a comment or question to the site in the Site feedback category. You can file tickets here on our Pguare instance also.

You can find us using IRC on #fedora-ask[?].

Admins and Moderators

Admins and moderators of Ask Fedora are at expected to be logged in at #fedora-ask[?].

Guidelines for Ask Fedora users

Participate

You can participate by asking questions or answering them in http://ask.fedoraproject.org,

History

Rahul Sundaram has explained the history of the project here. He initiated an earlier effort for editors to interface with developers and directly answer user questions as part of the Fedora Weekly News. This effort didn't scale and is now defunct. The following are for historical record.

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