On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Elsa Culler wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Last night at sugarcamp, we(people from the Olin college OLPC chapter) >> > were asked to come up with a list of roadblocks we have run into in >> > trying to volunteer effectively. Mel Chua asked me to forward it to >> > these lists, so here is the list in text format: >> >> Thanks for this criticism, I'm sure it is very appreciated. >> Some comments inlined below: >> >> >> > we have to come up with jobs ourselves, and we're not too good at it >> > >> > we don't know what we can do that is useful >> > >> > when we are told what to do, we have to check with other people to make >> > sure it's ok >> >> I think communication would improve a lot if it was kept on the >> public channels such as these lists, or the #sugar channel on >> irc.freenode.net. >> >> > Note that most nondevelopers have not even heard of irc. > > Somewhere easy to find on the wiki we need some text that explains one easy > way to connect so people can get started. Here is some suggested text, > maybe we can discuss it here then put it into the wiki. > > Sugar Labs meetings are held on IRC (Internet Relay Chat). It is one of the > first chat systems for the internet and is still preferred by many open > source developers. > > There are many programs to use IRC. One easy way is to download the > ChatZilla addon for FireFox. > > Once the add on is installed open it from the Tools Menu of FF. > (Could someone test what it does the first time, before you've told it your > nick name?) > It will open a new window with some text. Click "freenode" in the available > networks. > It will take a second to connect and text will scroll on your screen. > Type /j #Sugar > > You will now see a list of people in the Sugar room. Say Hello and join the > conversation!
Sounds good to me. Perhaps we could make it even easier by embedding mibbit or cgiirc in our wiki? Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
