n Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 17:16, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > Do we want to use IRC for this? IRC is not that familiar to nondevelopers. > > I do like the idea of a synchronous place to get help. We have a Moodle > install and that can have chat but who would be there to answer the > questions? > That's the problem: All the developers/techies use IRC currently, telling them to open up a web page and stay in their browser isn't going to work. Segmenting the community across two real-time-chat mediums is not the way to go. We could use the window into IRC on the wiki page idea that came up > earlier. > Yes, that was what I was thinking. Currently we have a non-embedded setup at http://sugarlabs.org/go/Communication_channels , eventually we will be able to embed Mibbit. (try clicking on a channel name on that page) If we do we should be sure to also include instructions on how to use IRC > with other clients. Our goal has to be to recruit a certain percentage of > the question askers to be question answers or we'll never scale. > That would be trivial to do, and is a good idea. -lf
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