A new Debian Question and Answer Help Forum

There is a 'new' place for, Question and Answer support for Debian users ... new and experienced users alike.

http://ask.debian.net

Ask Debian is a Question and Answer (QA) website, meant to provide user support to the community, by the community.
FAQ > http://ask.debian.net/pages/faq

Another way of seeing it is as a skill exchange website: users can ask questions about stuff they don't know and other users, possibly more expert on that topic, can answer those questions; everyone can then use peer review to evaluate and sort answers.  There are several Debian Maintainers and Developers 'active' on this site..

Several proprietary web applications are based on the above notions and have proven useful for user support in several contexts, including other Free Software distributions. Ask Debian on the other hand is Free Software released under AGPL; as such it's the best match to give a try to something similar in the context of Debian. Ask Debian has also a couple of other niceties, e.g. offers login via OpenID and supports questions/answers in multiple languages.

Will it work for us?
It's up to the community. This kind of user support works when it reaches a critical mass of both "newbie" users in need of help and of "expert" users willing to help them. No matter your category, give it a try: go to the website and look around, you'll probably find a question to ask, a question to answer, or an answer to evaluate.

-- by > Stefano Zacchiroli :: currently the Debian Project Leader

#! side-note >  I noticed that corenominal joined

Last edited by vrkalak (2010-10-07 17:51:04)