On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Sam Thursfield <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Dave Neary <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 06/02/11 02:02, Robert Ancell wrote: >>> >>> A huge +1 on this. IRC is much more productive, but it's crucial that >>> it's logged for people who can't attend. (I'm always hitting this >> I really don't think IRC logs are a good way of communicating anything. It's >> better than unlogged, but really only marginally. > > this is an excellent point, you've just made me reconsider my thoughts > on IRC logging.
Logging all communication of spontaneous conversation and interactions in IRC has the potential of destroying the culture and freedom to make and share mistakes that is essential when collaboratively designing. One possible idea is to have a bot log at specific pre-determined intervals and announce that logging. For instance conversations between 17:00 and 18:00 UTC are automatically logged, and weekly or bi-weekly meetings could be made to coincide with this logging. Doing it in this manner would provide both on-record periods that can be reviewed and used for bringing up issues,. as well as off-record time for freer brainstorming and other more freeform activities. With such times stated in topic/on a website with the logs, these times could be the core times one expects many of the active people to be present as well as for more peripheral people to bring up issues. /Øyvind K. -- «The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed» -- William Gibson http://pippin.gimp.org/ http://ffii.org/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
