FHIR Rules for asking questions

Many members of the FHIR community generously give their time for free, answering other implementer's questions on various social media forums.

Some of the forums in which FHIR Community Members are regularly available:

• [chat.fhir.org]
• [community.fhir.org]
• [stackoverflow.com]
• the [FHIR email list]

Please note, however, that this is all free. If you're going to ask a question, please take note of the following guidelines:

1. be specific - provide enough information for someone who might answer the question to actually do so
2. be clear - what are you asking for
3. Don't ask questions that can be characterised as 'please do my homework for me' - you'll get better answers when when your question is very focused
4. answer other questions that you know how to - that improves your credibility

Mostly, you'll end up at this page if someone referred you here. That means that they think your question didn't meet these guidelines. That doesn't mean you can't ask the qeustion, but try harder not to take the service for granted.

See also [Stack Overflow Question Guidelines]