[Systers-dev] GSoC and irc channels

[Jennifer Redman]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Kathy Richardson <kjr at casaveracruz.com>wrote:

> I'm not sure I want to be on IRC.  I have a window open to it on my
> computer, but I'm not in front of it that much and at this point it is just
> an interruption.


We'll schedule actual irc office hours during the application period and
during GSoC  - so no one person has to stare at the terminal window all the
time. No worries, if it doesn't fit into your schedule.

Irc is a very good way to help students in real-time -- and is better then
one-on-one chats because it's a bit more collaborative -- others get to see
questions being answered and pipe in if they have a better solution.
Additionally, most Open Source projects have an irc channel that is used for
development and user support -- it's good for students new to OS development
to learn how to use irc if they've never experienced it before.

Anyone else want to extol the values of irc? I know we have a few community
members on this list that are regular users.

But yes, everyone also needs to join systers-dev at systers.org, as well.

Jen

Jen