On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Jeff Elkner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All, > > II have two personality quirks that often get in my way: I have a > great deal of trouble multitasking, and I would loose my head were it > not attached to my shoulders. What I need from a computer are tools > that complement my limitations, and help me be more productive. irc > can be such a tool, particularly in combination with logging. > > I'm a regular user on #schooltool. I go there to ask questions about > schooltool, and participate there in on-line meetings about the > development of schooltool. I don't worry about trying to take notes > or record what happens on the channel, that all happens > *automatically*. If I think later... "Oh, yeah, we discussed that > back in the first week in October." No problem, just go here: > http://schooltool.pov.lt/irclogs/ and look through the dates around > the time I remember the meeting happening. > > I was surprised to find out that there was no logging on #sugar, and > it keeps me from wanting to hold any real discussions on the channel. > I go there to find if folks are around, then ask them to meet me on > google talk, so that I can automatically get a log of what we discuss. > It would like to make most of these conversations available to the > rest of the community, but I don't have the time to log and publish > them myself. > > Is there a good reason why we don't auto log the channel? > > Apparenly it was discussed. Some people do not like publicly available logs. I log all my IRC channels locally. This is handy because I can use desktop search to find something. I can't point someone else to them, but I suppose I could email part of it to someone. Dave > jeff elkner > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Dave Bauer [email protected] http://www.solutiongrove.com
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