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73 | 73 | <h1 id="getting-help-with-astropy">Getting Help with Astropy<a class="paralink" href="#getting-help-with-astropy" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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75 | 75 | <p>The best way to get help is usually by asking questions to the Astropy user
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| - and development community. There are several very active forums and you are |
| 76 | + and development community. There are a number of active forums and you are |
77 | 77 | welcome to use whichever one you are the most comfortable with.</p>
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80 | 80 | <li><a href="https://community.openastronomy.org/c/astropy/8" title="">Open Astronomy Discourse</a> - This forum allows
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81 | 81 | questions to be tagged by topic, is searchable on Google, and displays
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| - code snippets better than some of our current alternatives. We plan to |
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| - redirect user questions from Slack, Twitter, and mailing lists to this |
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| - new site. Please head over and ask (and answer) questions.</li> |
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| - <li><a href="https://twitter.com/astropy">@astropy on Twitter</a> - Mention |
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| - @astropy in a tweet with your question. Your tweet may be re-tweeted in |
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| - order to reach the relevant community. Many tweets get responses within a |
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| - <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/astropython/">Python Users in |
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| - Astronomy Facebook group</a> - Post questions or start discussions on |
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| - anything related to Python programming applied to astronomy. This is a |
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| - closed group. If your request to join is not approved after a couple days, |
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| - please message one of the <a |
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| - href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/astropython/admins/">admins</a> with a |
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| - brief description of your involvement in astronomy. This is a very active |
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| - group and is the best place to get help. Most posts get responses within a few hours. |
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| 82 | + code snippets well. Please head over and ask (and answer) questions.</li> |
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| - <li><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/astropy">Users Email |
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| - List</a> - Post questions or start discussions about anything related to |
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| - Python programming applied to astronomy. This is an active email list and |
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| - <li> <a href="https://astropy.slack.com">Astropy Slack team</a> (<a |
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| - href="http://joinslack.astropy.org">get an account</a>) - Some developers and |
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| - contributors use Slack for everyday discussions. Feel free to use this |
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| - forum if you have any questions about contributing to Astropy. The best place to ask questions about how to use Astropy is the |
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| - <a href="https://community.openastronomy.org/c/astropy/8" title="">Open Astronomy Discourse</a> server. |
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| - Please browse all the available channels before posting and try to choose the most |
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| 84 | + <li> <a href="https://astropy.slack.com">Astropy Slack workspace</a> (<a |
| 85 | + href="http://joinslack.astropy.org">get an account</a>) - This forum is primarily |
| 86 | + focused on developing and maintaining the Astropy project, but the |
| 87 | + <code>#community-help</code> channel is a good place for users to seek help from the |
| 88 | + Astropy community. </li> |
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| - <li> <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/astropy-dev">Developer Email |
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| - List [astropy-dev]</a> - Start discussion and ask questions about changing or adding |
| 90 | + <li><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/astropy">Astropy Users Email |
| 91 | + List [ [email protected]] </a> - Post questions or start discussions about anything related to |
| 92 | + Python programming applied to astronomy.</li> |
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| 94 | + <li> <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/astropy-dev">Astropy Developers Email |
| 95 | + List [ [email protected]] </a> - Start discussions and ask questions about changing or adding |
117 | 96 | functionality to the <code>astropy</code> package. This is also the place where significant
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118 | 97 | announcements for contributors/developers are usually made. If you would like to
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119 | 98 | participate in discussion about how the Project is run,
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120 | 99 | please join this list.
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121 | 100 | </li>
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