Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-08 Thread Ethan Anderson
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Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-08 Thread Richard JOHNSON
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:51:13AM +0100, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Right now in our IRC clients when you launch them we autojoin them to > #ubuntu. This makes the channel unwieldy, see > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/392799 > > I was wondering how people felt a

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-06 Thread Myriam Schweingruber
Hi all, On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 18:30, Jan Claeys wrote: > Op maandag 03-08-2009 om 10:51 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Jorge O. > Castro: >> Right now in our IRC clients when you launch them we autojoin them to >> #ubuntu. This makes the channel unwieldy, see >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-c

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-06 Thread Licio Fonseca
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Santiago Zarate wrote: > It would be the same as having them to autojoin #ubuntu what about > #ubuntu- and a localized popup message with quassel and/or > Xchat giving the user a warm welcome... its a way more interesting idea i > gues... as it is done in source.li

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-06 Thread Jan Claeys
Op maandag 03-08-2009 om 10:51 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Jorge O. Castro: > Right now in our IRC clients when you launch them we autojoin them to > #ubuntu. This makes the channel unwieldy, see > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/392799 > > I was wondering how people felt about

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-05 Thread Siegfried-Angel
By the way, there's also this spec: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-live-chat-support/+spec/ubuntu-live-chat-support https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuLiveChatSupport (I got in touch with the author offering him my help and the idea was to rewrite it properly in Python and propose it for

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-05 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Matthew East wrote: > I don't think this would be a problem for those local teams that > provide irc support, but it's probably worth bearing in mind that not > all local teams do that. Plenty of the English speaking ones might > defer to #ubuntu for that. It would b

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-05 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:19 +0200, Jonathan Hitchcock wrote: > Firstly, the Ubuntu-ZA loco team had a meeting on IRC this morning, > and we came out very much in favour of automatically redirecting South > African users to #ubuntu-za. We have built up the channel and the > community around it, and

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-05 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jorge Jorge O. Castro wrote: > I was thinking of something along the lines of what Chuck recommends, > but instead of #ubuntu-welcome maybe we should just make it clearer > when someone joins #ubuntu that "by the way, check out your friendly > neighborhood local team" and a link to the loco dir

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-05 Thread Jonathan Hitchcock
Hi, Firstly, the Ubuntu-ZA loco team had a meeting on IRC this morning, and we came out very much in favour of automatically redirecting South African users to #ubuntu-za. We have built up the channel and the community around it, and we feel we would be able to support and "conscript" newbies to t

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-05 Thread Laura Czajkowski
wski skype: lauraczajkowski - Original Message From: Ubuntu local community team LoCo contacts To: Ubuntu local community team LoCo contacts Subject: Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC Date: 05/08/09 12:19 > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Jonathan Carter >

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-05 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > I'd be very much in favour of that. How would you implement it though, > and would it be possible to only have it implemented for LoCo's that > provides IRC support for their region? I've been mulling ways on implementing this.

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-04 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jorge Jorge O. Castro wrote: > Right now in our IRC clients when you launch them we autojoin them to > #ubuntu. This makes the channel unwieldy, see > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/392799 > > I was wondering how people felt about having the users join > #ubuntu-COUNTRYCODE i

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-03 Thread Savvas Radevic
How about leaving it as it is and force-join another channel? I would suggest to force-join e.g. #ubuntu-local, and set that channel as a relay for the local team. I particularly like the mixed #ubuntu :) On 8/3/09, Russell John wrote: > +1 from Bangladesh team. :) > > 2009/8/3 Jorge O. Castro :

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-03 Thread Russell John
+1 from Bangladesh team. :) 2009/8/3 Jorge O. Castro : > Hi everyone, > > Right now in our IRC clients when you launch them we autojoin them to > #ubuntu. This makes the channel unwieldy, see > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/392799 > > I was wondering how people felt about havin

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-03 Thread Santiago Zarate
It would be the same as having them to autojoin #ubuntu what about #ubuntu- and a localized popup message with quassel and/or Xchat giving the user a warm welcome... its a way more interesting idea i gues... On Lun 03 Ago 2009 11:30:30 Chuck Frain escribió: > How about defaulting to an #ubu

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-03 Thread Chuck Frain
How about defaulting to an #ubuntu-welcome channel that would have a welcome text saying go to #ubuntu for help, #ubuntu-COUNTRYCODE for local info, and other basics? On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Right now in our IRC clients when you launch them we au

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-03 Thread Matthew East
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > Right now in our IRC clients when you launch them we autojoin them to > #ubuntu. This makes the channel unwieldy, see > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/392799 > > I was wondering how people felt about having the users join >

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-03 Thread Rafael Carreras
2009/8/3 Jorge O. Castro : > Hi everyone, > > Right now in our IRC clients when you launch them we autojoin them to > #ubuntu. This makes the channel unwieldy, see > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/392799 > > I was wondering how people felt about having the users join > #ubuntu-COU

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-03 Thread Santiago Zarate
I say a big +1 to this, would make easier the experience for the newcomers... :) and also for old users who only joint to #ubuntu- On Lun 03 Ago 2009 05:21:13 Jorge O. Castro escribió: > Hi everyone, > > Right now in our IRC clients when you launch them we autojoin them to > #ubuntu. This makes t

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-03 Thread Aanjhan R
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > I was wondering how people felt about having the users join > #ubuntu-COUNTRYCODE instead, so depending on your locale it would join > you to that channel instead of #ubuntu. How do you feel about this, > would it be useful for LoCo's or do