[Eg-oversight-board] Ideas for fostering community participation: survey, IRC practice time

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Yamil Suarez <ysuarez at berklee.edu> wrote:

> My second idea, inspired by the DIG survey discussion is to offer IRC
> training and practice time. Kathy already made a very nice tutorial page
> for using IRC [1], though I can't seem to find a link from the chat page[2]
> to it. I would like to try officially reserving a time on the EG IRC
> channel for people to practice using IRC commands without feeling like they
> are interrupting others or that they will embarrass themselves. I would
> specifically like to schedule this practice time soon after one of our
> conferences where excitement will be hopefully still be running high.
> Though we can also have this meeting at a different time of the year, or
> more than once.
>

+1.

A related idea that just occurred to me -- might it be useful to establish
a second IRC channel, e.g., #evergreen-social, that's meant for
not-entirely-on-topic chat?

Regards,

Galen
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