On 28-Dec-07, at 7:13 PM, Raj Mathur wrote: >>> IRC is inelegant for a participatory meet. >> >> BS - it works just fine > > Thanks for volunteering to sit in at the meet and relay messages > between > the local and the IRC participants :)
Is this intended to be a joke? If so, it is in very poor taste, or else it is due to ignorance of the power of IRC. There was recently a sprint by the django community. About a 100 people all around the world participated. The main group was in Chicago, with other smaller groups in other cities and many individuals sitting in their homes. It was all done over IRC. IRC can be used in two ways: 1. Projected on a screen where all the participants can see the progress. Incidentally the minutes can also be entered in real time on a wiki and projected on the screen. We have successfully demonstrated this at our meeting in Chennai (Gora had attended) 2. If wifi is available, members with laptops can also use IRC. Of course, if your reply was intended to suppress discussion in the heavy handed way one has come to expect from some ilugd members, please ignore this mail. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
