diff --git a/playbooks/groups/ask.yml b/playbooks/groups/ask.yml
index 6cfb7a7dd4..d255c9a467 100644
--- a/playbooks/groups/ask.yml
+++ b/playbooks/groups/ask.yml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/roles/denyhosts
   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/roles/nagios_client
   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/roles/fas_client
+  - /srv/web/infra/ansible/roles/fedmsg_base
   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/roles/ask
 
   tasks:
diff --git a/roles/ask/tasks/main.yml b/roles/ask/tasks/main.yml
index bc22356dfc..a4fe91e388 100644
--- a/roles/ask/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/ask/tasks/main.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
   - python-django-post_office
   - python-django-compressor
   - django-authopenid
+  - django-celery
   tags:
   - packages
 
diff --git a/roles/ask/templates/settings.py b/roles/ask/templates/settings.py
index 90b2df4780..a2e51556c3 100644
--- a/roles/ask/templates/settings.py
+++ b/roles/ask/templates/settings.py
@@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
     'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
     #'django.middleware.sqlprint.SqlPrintingMiddleware',
 
+    # Enable outgoing fedmsg messages
+    'askbot_fedmsg.NOOPMiddleware',
+
     #below is askbot stuff for this tuple
     'askbot.middleware.anon_user.ConnectToSessionMessagesMiddleware',
     'askbot.middleware.forum_mode.ForumModeMiddleware',
@@ -184,12 +187,13 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = (
     'keyedcache',
     'robots',
     'django_countries',
-    #'djcelery',
+    'djcelery',
     'djkombu',
     'followit',
     'tinymce',
     'group_messaging',
     #'avatar',#experimental use git clone git://github.com/ericflo/django-avatar.git$
+    'post_office',
 )