Hi Adam, One thing to remember here: Apache conversations should happen on Apache lists. While many ASF projects do use some form of real time communication, all decisions must be made on the ASF mailing lists.
Talking in person, or in IRC without a log of what happened excludes contributors who are not part of that conversation from the same interaction level. It's also subject to time zones and other things that Apache and its consensus and voting and decision processes are meant to deal with. So, IOW, IRC is fine, but most of the conversation and *all* of the decisions happen here on the list. Cheers, Chris On 2/28/13 8:21 AM, "Adam Monsen" <[email protected]> wrote: >It's been pretty quiet so far, but one other soul (or bot?) joined and >is lurking. > >Anyone else want to give it a try? > >It would be good to conjure a healthy presence by the time GSoC 2013 >rolls around. Students often have quick questions that are well-suited >for a chat setting. > >Here's one trick that worked well with another community I spent a ton >of time with (Mifos). Most of the Mifos maintainers were coworkers at >the Grameen Foundation, so it was easy and tempting to just talk in >person, call, or direct (private) message each other. We got used to >having a quick IRC chat instead. That made it the project much more >accessible to outsiders. > >Let me know if you'd like operator privileges too... it would be good if >a few maintainers were ops. I'm happy to share ops and/or relinquish it. > >On 02/26/2013 02:26 PM, Adam Monsen wrote: >> I'm squatting in #mesos on Freenode. Please stop on by! >> >> I registered it with ChanServ following >> http://blog.freenode.net/2008/04/registering-a-channel-on-freenode/ >> >> I didn't kick off the Freenode "group registration" process yet, I >> wanted to see if this channel gets used first. >> >> If you want persistent IRC, you might try https://www.irccloud.com or >> setting up your own znc or bnc. I just use GNU Screen and irssi on an >> always-on server. > >
