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[Jacky Alcine <jacky.alcine@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There's no recommended IRC chat client. I've used Irssi, Konversation and
Quassel and now I'm stuck with Quassel.

On Tuesday, December 13, 2011, Justin Des Lauriers wrote:

> Are we still using Xchat?  My setup was on my work computer and I left that
> job in August
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacky Alcine [mailto:jacky.alcine@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 4:53 PM
> To: justin des lauriers
> Subject: Re: [info] Project Reinitialization
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:00 PM, justin des lauriers
> <justin.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > A roadmap, milestones, deadlines, technology that needs to be
> > developed and perhaps a mission statement, to unify and recruit people
> > with.  Also is there a limit to the team size?
>
> Limit to the team size? Oh no, but pick people whom are capable of working.
> Roadmap? http://thesii.org/wiki/Wintermute:Roadmap
> Milestones? https://launchpad.net/wintermute/trunk
> Deadlines? Not exactly, but the first release (0.1a) is expected in March
> 2012.
> Technology? http://thesii.org/wiki/Wintermute:Techbase
> Mission Statement? Not yet.
>
> > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:31 PM, justin des lauriers
> > <justin.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sure, I have nothing to do this month due to christmas break, and
> >> I'll see about networking with the CS kids
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Jacky Alcine
> >> <jacky.alcine@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Sunday, December 11, 2011, justin des lauriers wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I believe that in the past developers were the project managers
> >>>> because they could quote time requirements, which doesn't have to
> >>>> be a centralized task.  My thinking was let the really good
> >>>> developers focus on developing rather than managing, and people
> >>>> like me who don't have any hard skills try and manage the unruly lot.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Sounds like a good idea. What kind of information do you think you
> >>> need to get this done? I could try to scurry up with the roadmap
> >>> (it'd be decoupled from an actual timeline) and have that swung over
> >>> to you. A trial period of a month could see how things work out.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Jacky Alcine
> >>>> <jacky.alcine@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:56 PM, justin des lauriers
> >>>> <justin.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hey Jackie,
> >>>>   I am offering being a project manager or coordinator.  I am
> >>>> currently in a MS Technology Management program and will be taking
> >>>> two project management classes next semester.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Interesting, how does that work and go? The way I saw a project
> >>>> manager, they "shepherded" the developers, packagers, maintainers,
> >>>> translators, and documentators to ensure that everything was
> >>>> flowing consistently. They also recruited and introduced new peope.
> >>>> If you could do this, then, by all means, I'd love to see it. But
> >>>> not only for SpeechControl but perhaps for a majority of the
> Institute's proejcts.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>   Since I don't have any development experience and very little
> >>>> coding skills this is one area that I think I can help.  Let me
> >>>> know what you think and if it doesn't help maybe I can be a bug
> squisher.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Jacky Alcine
> >>>> <jacky.alcine@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello members of SpeechControl. If it hasn't been noticed,
> >>>> SpeechControl has not only gone upstream; it is n