Concerning the desirability of maintaining an open IRC channel. My cyber-worklife is organized around e-mail and asynchronous communication over mailing lists, blogs, and wikis. I do not keep any messaging application open on my desktop and definitely not on mobile devices. (I'm not really a "phone person" and use SMS as much as voice.)
I use Skype and Google Hangout+ for text/tele/video-conferencing. These are mainly scheduled events, not spontaneous and not for Apache Project purposes. I do have some regularly scheduled teleconferences, but I have ceased participating on ones that, because of their international character, are at times that work badly for someone whose civil time is at UTC-0800 and whose working language is under the handicap of native en-US. I'm not objecting to the use of IRC. It is simply not anything I partake in. I am also wary of IRC on a podling, and certainly among PPMC members, until the process of working in public is well-established. I have no opinion on its use for personal communications among project members. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: jan i [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 02:56 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Apache Corinthia website is up and running On 23 December 2014 at 11:31, Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> wrote: [ ... ] > Shouldn't we also put our IRC channel on the web site? > The IRC channel was a very fast decision. Not saying it was a bad decision, it was not, but before promoting it, I would like to hear more opinions. I have no problem with having a IRC channel, provided someone is prepared to hang in there...an empty channel or non-responsive channel is for me not a good sign. Personally I use google hangout/skype/hipchat a lot more and do not have IRC started 24/7. But that is just my view, how do the community feel ? rgds jan i. [ ... ]
