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.
- 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.
- More information: this IRC primer for new users and the general IRC guidelines from freenode are also useful resources.
IRC Meeting Guidelines
- Meetings should occur in #meego-meeting
- Keep minutes / logs of your meeting by using the MeeGo Meetbot.
- Always add meetings to the MeeGo-Meeting IRC Schedule to schedule #meego-meeting and make sure that people can find your meeting.
- Announce the meeting on the most relevant mailing list or forum at least 24 hours in advance.
- Announce upcoming meetings on #meego and other required channels prior to starting.
- Follow-up the announcements after the meeting has occurred to post minutes and allow collection of later thoughts and feedback.
- Use a wiki page to organize your agendas and post links to past minutes (example).
- For meeting coordinators, plan your topics carefully into short sentences and give plenty of time for responses.
- If you are not used to IRC, familiarise yourself first, the channels can become overwhelming for new users.
- Smile and have fun! :)