# Communicating

Topics

- Communicating
  - Code of Conduct
  - Mailing List Information
  - IRC Channel
    - General Channels
    - Working Group
    - Language specific channels
    - IRC Meetings
  - Tower Support Questions

## Code of Conduct

Please read and understand the Community Code of Conduct.

## Mailing List Information

Ansible has several mailing lists. Your first post to the mailing list will be moderated (to reduce spam), so please allow up to a day or so for your first post to appear.

Ansible Project List is for sharing Ansible tips, answering questions, and general user discussion.

Ansible Development List is for learning how to develop on Ansible, asking about prospective feature design, or discussions about extending ansible or features in progress.

Ansible Announce list is a read-only list that shares information about new releases of Ansible, and also rare infrequent event information, such as announcements about an upcoming AnsibleFest, which is our official conference series.

Ansible Container List is for users and developers of the Ansible Container project.

Ansible Lockdown List is for all things related to Ansible Lockdown projects, including DISA STIG automation and CIS Benchmarks.

To subscribe to a group from a non-Google account, you can send an email to the subscription address requesting the subscription. For example: ansible-devel+subscribe@googlegroups.com

## IRC Channel

Ansible has several IRC channels on Freenode (irc.freenode.net).

### General Channels

- `#ansible` - For general use questions and support.
- `#ansible-devel` - For discussions on developer topics and code related to features/bugs.
- `#ansible-meeting` - For public community meetings. We will generally announce these on one or more of the above mailing lists. See the meeting schedule and agenda page
- `#ansible-notices` - Mostly bot output from things like GitHub, etc.

### Working Group

- `#ansible-aws` - For discussions on Amazon Web Services.
- `#ansible-community` - Channel for discussing Ansible Community related things.
- `#ansible-container` - For discussions on Ansible Container.
- `#ansible-jboss` - Channel for discussing JBoss and Ansible related things.
- `#ansible-network` - Channel for discussing Network and Ansible related things.
- `#ansible-news` - Channel for discussing Ansible Communication & News related things.
- `#ansible-vmware` - For discussions on Ansible & VMware.
- `#ansible-windows` - For discussions on Ansible & Windows.

### Language specific channels

- `#ansible-es` - Channel for Spanish speaking Ansible community.
- `#ansible-fr` - Channel for French speaking Ansible community.

### IRC Meetings

The Ansible community holds regular IRC meetings on various topics, and anyone who is interested is invited to participate. For more information about Ansible meetings, consult the meeting schedule and agenda page.

## Tower Support Questions

Ansible Tower is a UI, Server, and REST endpoint for Ansible.

If you have a question about Ansible Tower, visit Red Hat support rather than using the IRC channel or the general project mailing list.