IRC #pdxfunc

[Dan Colish]

Hey all,

I was wondering why the #pdxfunc chan isn't actively used. A few friends metioned interest in it, but no one appears to be maintaining it. I know its registered to tlockney, so if he/she is still around and is interested in handing over op give me a shout.

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--Dan

[Thomas Lockney]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Dan Colish <d...@unencrypted.org> wrote:

Hey all,

I was wondering why the #pdxfunc chan isn't actively used. A few friends metioned interest in it, but no one appears to be maintaining it. I know its registered to tlockney, so if he/she is still around and is interested in handing over op give me a shout.

Yep, still around, but I don't seem to find time to make it to the group meetings since the very beginning when we first discussed getting it going. Anyway, IRC user Wraithan (Chris McDonald) messaged me earlier about it and I assigned ownership over to him, but I'm waiting for him to respond since he needs to do something on his end as well to make it complete.

[Chris McDonald]

> Yep, still around, but I don't seem to find time to make it to the group
> meetings since the very beginning when we first discussed getting it going.
> Anyway, IRC user Wraithan (Chris McDonald) messaged me earlier about it and
> I assigned ownership over to him, but I'm waiting for him to respond since
> he needs to do something on his end as well to make it complete.

Got it, and took ownership. Going to setup the channel like the
#pdxpython one where anyone can set the topic and such. I am new to
the group, went to my first meeting on Monday and thought that an IRC
channel would be a good place for folks to continue such discussions
so Dan and I are trying to get the channel going. Stop by, say hi, we
don't bite!

Chris McDonald
Wraithan

[Igal Koshevoy]

Thomas: Thanks for helping out.

Chris: Thanks for setting things up. What do I need to do to become a
co-owner?

All: Anyone else need co-owner rights?

For those that use IRC for user groups, what do you get out of it, how
do you find the right balance of interaction without excessive
distraction, what should we be doing, etc? I know how to use IRC clients
and am asking this as a larger question beyond just pdxfunc, because I
have a couple other groups that have IRC channels that we're not making
much use of.

-igal

[Chris McDonald]

> Chris: Thanks for setting things up. What do I need to do to become a
> co-owner?
>
> All: Anyone else need co-owner rights?
>
> For those that use IRC for user groups, what do you get out of it, how
> do you find the right balance of interaction without excessive
> distraction, what should we be doing, etc? I know how to use IRC clients
> and am asking this as a larger question beyond just pdxfunc, because I
> have a couple other groups that have IRC channels that we're not making
> much use of.
>
> -igal

Just let me know who you are on IRC and I will set you up with the
correct premissions.

Well, typically it is for ad hoc discussions, often someone will link
an article that they think is neat and discussion takes off from
there.

Distraction wise, I am not sure if you mean staying on topic in the
channel or the work/chatting balance. As far as staying on topic that
really is just up to the channel to moderate itself (not really ops)
interesting discussion doesn't have to be exclusive to functional
programming, so often the channel just lets it continue, those with
more time to chat will stay in on it, others will stop when it gets
outside of the topics they care about.

Work/chat balance, that is something a bit more personal. I handled it
by leaving IRC in a screen session that I leave hidden until I have
10-15 minutes to kill or I need to rest my brain or something. Others
probably have other solutions.

Chris McDonald

[Dan Colish]

With repsect to distractions, I don't think there is a good answer. Generally I
look at irc as a collaborative tool so the distractions are more like learned
discussions.

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--Dan

[Thomas Lockney]

Hey all, despite handing over the "keys" to #pdxfunc on IRC some time ago, I see that hardly anyone is in there. In particular, the folks I recall assigning channel ownership to (Chris and Dan, iirc) no longer seem to be around. I still keep a session open in there and would be happy to retrieve those op privs if no one else is going to keep an eye on it. Is anyone in the group still able to make this change?

Thanks!

~thomas

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