[info] IRC, was: [croquet-dev] minutes from Nov 30, 2007 developer conference call/meeting

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Andreas Vox <avox at scribus.info>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:42:08 +0100
To: croquet-dev at duke.edu, Howard Stearns <howard.stearns at qwaq.com>
Subject: Re: IRC, was: [croquet-dev] minutes from Nov 30, 2007 developer conference call/meeting
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Reply-To: croquet-dev at duke.edu, Andreas Vox <avox at scribus.info>


Am 14.12.2007 um 15:12 schrieb Howard Stearns:

>Speaking only for myself, I came of age professionally with  
>newsgroups and email. IRC just isn't part of my culture.

I introduced myself to IRC three years ago when I joined the Scribus  
team. After a very short time I got used to it and hang out there  
most of the time.

Advantages compared to news/mail:
* more personal
* facilitates smalltalk for socializing
* instant response (if there's someone else there)

Advantages compared to Qwaq Forums and similar:
* client needs less resources
* possible to catch up on discussions (check the text log in the  
minutes: a lot of information is missing. Even if the audio was  
available, too, it would take a lot of time to listen to it and match  
it to the text log)

Challenges of IRC:
* establish a channel etiquette so everyone feels comfortable
* get enough people to join so you can have meaningful discussions
* one needs practice to follow discussions when several people are  
discussing different topics


>Honestly, I don't even know how to start,

Much easier than setting up Croquet :-)
Just download a suitable client, start it, point it to  
irc.freenode.net and join the channel #croquet.

Hm, ok, there are some subtleties you want to learn about later.  
Mostly acronyms and some IRC commands for registering and stuff.

>and I'm curmudgeon enough not to even want to know.


Ah, an attitude... :-)
Knowledge never hurts, but of course it's up to you if you want to  
try it.
TBH, I've been thinking along similar lines for 15 years, seeing no  
use in IRC.
But I haven't regretted learning it three years ago.

Just my € 0.02

/Andreas

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