Over the past couple of day we have made greatly imporved
communication via IRC using the #ubuntu-sugarteam, #sugar, and #seeta
channels.  Nice work.

Tomeu suggested that we each read over How to Ask a Question at
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html .  IRC is kind of a
weird way to communicate.  We are spread across time zones, projects
and cultures:)  May hackers just leave their IRC client running when
ever their computer is running.  It they hear a ping they know someone
is calling their name.

With this in mind:

... it can occasionally take hours for someone to reply.  It is
nothing personal,  they just happened to be doing something that could
not be interrupted.

... there is no need to say hello or ask permission to do something.
Just go ahead and ask your question:)  It saves the busy developers
like tomeu, alsroot, and bernie a 'round trip or two' when providing
help.  Eventually we will all get to know each other.  The important
things for achieving good answers is the quality of the question and
the reputation of the person asking it.  So far we are 3-3 every
question to #sugar has resulted in a useful fix.  Before long we will
be pushing these fixes to our up stream projects.

david

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