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<info>
<title>Help!</title>
</info>

<para>Support for DocBook is available from several forums.</para>

<section>
<title>FAQ</title>

<para><personname><firstname>Dave</firstname><surname>Pawson</surname>
</personname> maintains the
<link xlink:href="http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/">DocBook FAQ</link>.
</para>
</section>

<section>
<title>Mailing Lists</title>

<para>There are two public DocBook discussion lists to which you can
subscribe. <link xlink:href="guidelines">Guidelines</link> for
posting to these lists are posted periodically.</para>

<para>Use the
<link xlink:href="https://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php">subscription
manager</link> to subscribe or unsubscribe from these lists:</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><email>docbook@lists.oasis-open.org</email></term>
<listitem>
<para>For general DocBook questions. These include questions about the
DTD or schemas, questions about the syntax or semantics of elements,
and general DocBook markup questions. Please don’t post questions
about the stylesheets, formatting or processing issues, or other
application-specific questions to this list.
</para>

<para>This list is archived at OASIS:
<link xlink:href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/"/>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><email>docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org</email></term>
<listitem>
<para>For stylesheet and application-related DocBook questions. This
is the place to ask questions about formatting or processing issues,
stylesheets, and other applications.
</para>

<para>This list is archived at OASIS:
<link xlink:href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/"/>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>Digested versions of each list are available if you prefer to
receive fewer messages.</para>

<para>Please <emphasis>don't cross-post</emphasis> questions to
both lists. In fact, please don't cross-post messages to either DocBook
list and any other mailing list.</para>
</section>

<section>
<title>IRC</title>

<para>Many DocBook users, including several members of the Technical
Committee regularly hang out on the
<link xlink:href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat">IRC</link>
channel
“<link xlink:href="irc://irc.freenode.net/docbook">#docbook</link>”
on <link xlink:href="http://www.freenode.net/">freenode</link>.</para>
</section>

<section>
<title>Wiki</title>

<para>There is a DocBook
<link xlink:href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki">wiki</link>
at <link xlink:href="http://wiki.docbook.org/"/>.
</para>
</section>
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