n Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 17:16, Caroline Meeks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Do we want to use IRC for this? IRC is not that familiar to nondevelopers.<br><br>I do like the idea of a synchronous place to get help. We have a Moodle install and that can have chat but who would be there to answer the questions?<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>That's the problem: All the developers/techies use IRC currently, telling them to open up a web page and stay in their browser isn't going to work. Segmenting the community across two real-time-chat mediums is not the way to go. <br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>We could use the window into IRC on the wiki page idea that came up earlier. </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>Yes, that was what I was thinking.
Currently we have a non-embedded setup at
<a href="http://sugarlabs.org/go/Communication_channels">http://sugarlabs.org/go/Communication_channels</a> , eventually we will be
able to embed Mibbit. (try clicking on a channel name on that page)<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>If we do we should be sure to also include instructions on how to use IRC with other clients. Our goal has to be to recruit a certain percentage of the question askers to be question answers or we'll never scale.</div>
</div></blockquote></div><br>That would be trivial to do, and is a good idea.<br><br>-lf<br>