[Glastonbury] chat room

[Rick Fitzsimmons]

Excellent. I've just loaded the ChatZilla extension in Firefox and had a 
quick try (I'm an irc-newbie). I just wonder how this will work out in 
practice. When someone asks for help on the list, do we suggest an irc 
session and time so that the right people are on-line at the right time? 
If it's just left to chance, someone with a question might find 
him/herself all alone on irc, and get the impression we're an unhelpful 
bunch of elitists :-(

What works elsewhere? (Like I said, I'm new to this.)

Cheers,
Rick.


Martin Biggs wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
>    I have been considering the recent emails on this list about us 
> appearing elitist on the list; while new members that attend the 
> meetings have said that we are a friendly and helpfully bunch.  On the 
> list, it probably stems from us not being able to converse about the 
> problem and gauge the level of knowledge the person with the problem 
> has.  It also makes it more difficult for newbies to ask question about 
> parts of the answer they did not understand; and for us to lead somebody 
> step by step through a problem.
> 
> On the other hand, the ideal place to answer these questions and 
> converse about problems, the meetings, only happen once a month.
> I have been considering this, and think I have come up with a solution 
> that will let us converse about problems more and talk people through 
> problems.  It will also help new members get to know us and work out we 
> are just normal people that happen to use Linux and are happy to help 
> people with not as much experience.
> 
> I have set up a irc channel that I think would be both useful to help 
> solve, and talk people through, problems.  It could also help us to get 
> to know each other better and work out each persons area of expertise.  
> As I am sure that everyone of us knows something or has solved a problem 
> that somebody has not worked out yet.
> 
> I have set up the channel #lugog on server irc.lug.org.uk (which uses 
> the Blitzed network).  Hopefully I will see you there.
> 
> Martin Biggs
> 
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