I'd like to propose joining IRC as a GCI task, since it's slightly complicated as of now and they are newcomers to open source.
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018, 4:11 am Samson Goddy, <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know if this will solve the problem... But Zulip is a good chat > platform. Currently using it on my project, the community behind it host > open source orgs for free. It is light, but not as light as what we use. > > > https://zulipchat.com > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 11:36 PM Walter Bender <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I put instructions on how to register on Freenode in the wiki (as part of >> a landing page for every GCI task.) I am assuming people will be able to >> manage. As for SLOB meetings, the regulars also should be able to manage. >> >> (We've discussed before about using Sugar chat -- dogfooding -- for our >> meetings. I'd be game.) >> >> -walter >> >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 6:33 PM James Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> At the moment the issue with Freenode requires all of us to register >>> before we can speak. >>> >>> This impacts new people. It makes their joining as complicated as any >>> other service with registration requirements. >>> >>> As D. Joe has observed, if we had our people watching, we could notice >>> new people to let them speak. We would need to enable this, and somehow >>> cover the different time zones. As we don’t have enough coverage now to >>> answer the simplest questions from the people we have, we would need some >>> commitment. That would be the next step in that plan. >>> >>> I don’t know of any other service we could use that doesn’t require some >>> sort of registration. >>> >>> We might set up an IRC server ourselves, but then we take on the defence >>> problem that Freenode does for us. >>> >>> We do have a Jabber server, but I don’t know if it has been attacked in >>> the same way. >>> >>> On 5 Oct 2018, at 07:38, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> We will be meeting tomorrow (Friday, 5 October) at 20UTC [1] (4PM in >>> Boston) on irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting (See [2]). >>> >>> Note that there has been a SPAM issue on Freenode of late (See the email >>> from James I have forwarded below). We should discuss potential solutions. >>> >>> Also on the agenda: >>> >>> * GSoC travel >>> * GCI 2018 >>> * [your topic here] >>> >>> regards. >>> >>> -walter >>> >>> [1] https://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx >>> [2] https://webchat.freenode.net/ >>> >>> -- >>> Walter Bender >>> Sugar Labs >>> http://www.sugarlabs.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> <http://www.sugarlabs.org> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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