IRC guidelines

Revision as of 21:03, 20 September 2010

IRC in the MeeGo project

We use IRC for a variety of real-time conversations:

• Meetings
• Discussion
• Troubleshooting
• Collaboration
• Chatting with other contributors

General Guidelines

• Review our Community communication document: please review before you start participating for the first time.
• Pick the right channel: if you aren't sure, you should start in our main #meego channel.
• Keep it clean: many of us participate from work, so keep the language clean.
• Don't be a jerk: treat people with respect and consideration - no regional, racial, gender or other abuse will be tolerated
• Be helpful: be patient with new people and be willing to jump in to answer questions.
• Stay calm: the written word is always subject to interpretation, so give people the benefit of the doubt and try not to let emotions get out of control.
• Don't post chunks: avoid posting big chunks of text - use pastebin or a similar service to shorten it to a link.
• More information: this IRC primer for new users and the general IRC guidelines from freenode are also useful resources.

IRC Meeting Guidelines

• Use #meego-meeting: meetings should occur in #meego-meeting
• Keep minutes / logs: use the MeeGo Meetbot to create minutes and logs.
• MeeGo-Meeting IRC Schedule: Add your meeting to the schedule to make sure that people can find your meeting.
• Announce the meeting: Post to relevant mailing list or forum and in #meego and other required channels prior to starting.
• Use good meeting practices: Prepare in advance, use short sentences and give plenty of time for responses.
• Follow-up: Post your minutes to your meeting wiki page (example) and reply to the announcement with a link to your minutes.
• Tips for presenters: Read our IRC Presentation Tips if you are new to presenting in IRC.
• Smile: Keep it fun! :)

New MeeGo Channels

• Check existing channels first: Make sure that you really need a new channel and aren't overlapping with other channels.
• Contact Dawn Foster: It would be really nice if you consulted with Dawn before creating a new channel.
• Create and Register: Channels should be created and registered on freenode.
• Set founder flags: Give founder access to the following IRC nicks: DawnFoster and Stskeeps.
• List your channel: Add your channel to the Community communication document.

Guideline Violations

See our process for dealing with violations for more details.