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["Leigh Tate" <leigh.tate@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David, thanks for the link. I'm certainly willing to give this a try. One personal hesitation is that my participation can only be sporadic and unpredictable because of other commitments. I think this is why I've been okay with PMs or the mailing list. I get to it and respond when I can and never feel like I'm missing out.

Geoff, what do you think? Are you up for another learning curve? :)

Best wishes,
Leigh
----- Original Message -----
From: David Manuel Pires
Sent: 12/10/13 05:32 AM
To: newdocs
Subject: Re: [Newdocs] Suggestion: IRC Channel

Hi all.

On 10 December 2013 02:51, Leigh Tate < leigh.tate@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:I'm not discounting it by any means, just thinking of what we've dealt with in the past. But then, I've never used an IRC channel, so I honestly don't know of it's limitations,if any. Perhaps a crash course would be in order?

Best wishes,
Leigh

Even considering that we're all under different timezones, I think that the team would came up gaining by setting up its own IRC channel, because if we consider it pragmatically there's always moments when at least two members are under daylight at the same time, and thus able to communicate with each other in the channel.
As an example I can mention the Xubuntu team. Among all, we cover about 4 or 5 timezones, from US, going through Latin America and all the way to Finland, and most of the times we all gather at the same time in the team channel.
And of course there's also the channel logs, which IMO are a valuable tool to be considered.

Regarding the fact that neither you, Leigh, and perhaps also Geoff, never used an IRC channel, that's not a reason for concerns as it's really easy to do it and the learning curve isn't a steep one. I'm dropping a link for you both to take a look at:
Tutorial about IRC in general, but to address the peculiarities of freenode http://freenode.net/faq.shtml 

Cheers,
David Pires

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