[General] IRC office hours change proposal

[Ted Leung]

As a related topic to this,  I'd like to see us move most of our IRC  
channels to freenode.net.    If an open source project has an IRC  
channel, it is likely to be on freenode.  Having our channels on our  
own servers puts us in kind of a ghetto, because if forces people to  
connect to yet another server.    This is a bit of friction that I  
think we ought to eliminate.

Ted

On Jan 28, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:

> I'd like to propose some changes to IRC office hours.
>
> The original plan was to hold an "office hours" in the #chandler  
> channel once a week. We queued up a list of topics, rotating the  
> host between groups. The goal was to get osaf staff to hang out in  
> irc and talk to people who might join us on the project. Eventually  
> we scaled back to bi-weekly topics.
>
> Now we hang out in irc all of the time and have several projects  
> going. Even though we're frequently in irc, it can be useful to  
> have some scheduled topics for irc sessions. I'd like to see us  
> schedule these sessions in #chandler, #cosmo, #scooby, or #osaf  
> based on the need or desire for a conversation, QA session, etc. It  
> would work something like this...
>
> + We have two slots a week for planned IRC sessions, Wednesday and  
> Friday at 1pm PST. (A couple of people mentioned that these might  
> be better times than Wed at 11am PST.)
>
> + Anyone can propose a topic for a slot, preferably at least a few  
> days ahead of time.
>
> + The person proposing the topic is responsible for being the  
> facilitator/host of the session (or finding a facilitator).
>
> + The person proposing the topic is responsible for choosing the  
> channel and broadcasting the notice.
>
> + We should use an #osaf channel (logged) as a space for cross- 
> project discussions (not just scheduled sessions, but in general).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> btw: Please respond to general at osafoundation.org. I wasn't sure  
> that everyone was subscribed and spammed the other lists, but it  
> would be good to move all discussions like this to general.
>
> Cheers,
> Katie
>
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