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

[Yamil Suarez]

On Aug 14, 2013, at 3:30 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> 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


My apologies Galen…

To play devil's advocate, someone should reuse all of the valid warnings mentioned when someone suggests adding a new mailing list to the community, like fragmenting the community or just adding confusion. Also, should this channel be logged? Should we instead expand the use of the alternate EG IRC channel for social use also?

Yamil