IRC guidelines

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Revision as of 20:45, 2 September 2010

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

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.
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.

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.
Smile: Keep it fun! :)

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.

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 * '''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 [http://pastebin.com/ pastebin] or a similar service to shorten it to a link.
 * '''More information''': this [http://irchelp.org/irchelp/ircprimer.html IRC primer] for new users and the [http://freenode.net/channel_guidelines.shtml general IRC guidelines] from freenode are also useful resources.