Hello Tassia and everyone, Thanks for the warm welcome. I can’t see any conversation happening in the IRC channel so far. Do you have another communication channel in mind that we can use instead?
Best, Comfort On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 at 13:32, Tomris Teymurlu <tomris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tassia and everyone again, > > Thanks for the warm welcome! > > I also noticed that IRC messages seem to disappear when I reconnect. > Is there a way to see previous messages or logs when we restart the client > or browser? > It would be helpful to keep up with important information during the > contribution period. > > Thanks! > Tomris > > On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 at 16:30, Godson Nwaubani <nwauban...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thank you so much Tassia for the warm welcome. >> Seeing your mail made me know that someone actually saw us (the >> participants), we are finally home, smiles. >> >> First, I have not used the IRC kind of communication channel before, >> still trying to understand how communication flows there. >> When I rebooted my laptop and checked in back to the channel I realised >> that all the previous messages were gone, and that made me think like; >> Is that what will happen when anyone drops a message and for any reason >> someone reboots or restarts his/her browser everything will be gone? >> >> So basically that became my concern, which means we could literally miss >> out on important information within this period of contribution if sent >> through the IRC channel. >> For instance, you dropped a challenge you are facing for your mentors to >> see and help you out and then for any reason either party restarts the >> browser all is gone. >> >> If there is a remedy to persisting chats so it can be seen even after >> browser restart, that would be great and solve this concern of mine. >> >> My thoughts, thank you, >> >> Godson Nwaubani. >> IRC: Godson >> >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM Tassia Camoes Araujo <tas...@riseup.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Hey debian-QA friends, >>> >>> First of all, welcome to all Outreachy participants! Thanks for your >>> interest in Debian!!! >>> >>> Now, let me just check an internal matter before we continue talking >>> here ;-) >>> >>> I think we should have asked before, oups, but you've probably noticed >>> that we have used this mailing list and the IRC channel as communication >>> channels for the Outreachy internship project. >>> >>> It will be about a month of higher traffic, for participants to try to >>> join the community and start making contributions, and by mid-november >>> things will calm down, when the selection process will take place. The >>> internship will then run from December to March. >>> >>> We can still change those channels if anyone is annoyed by the higher >>> traffic. Should we do it now? What is your take on that? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Tassia. >>> >>>
