[WikiEN-l] IRC Group Contacts Surgery, August 2009

[Jay Litwyn]

One reason they are not publicly archived is so that discussions are not 
driven into DCC for want of not being held to word, quoted, or caught 
displaying a degree of ignorance or a prominent prejudice that you actually 
want to be argued out of. It can be live and off the cuff remarks, perhaps 
even admissions about personal and otherwise private life. There really is 
no telling how your logs will date. I remember one time when it was newsfeed 
about war in Tibet, then noise about magnetic levitation. I find IRC tiring 
to read and follow when it gets active, then boring when it slows down. Then 
there was that ad for carbonated black piss. The trick is to make the logs 
yourself in whatever group you want, and pretty much keep it to yourself.

<WJhonson at aol.com> wrote in message news:bdd.55588ff0.37a34137 at aol.com...
>A few years ago, I had asked that IRC have a searchable archive of
> discussions.  I was told that there were daily logs and I could get one if 
> I
> asked.  I asked, and was denied.  Until IRC commits itself to  openness, 
> it
> should have little to no impact on any facet of our project.   Without 
> searchable
> archives, IRC is not open in the modern sense, regardless of  who or how
> you can join it, or view it.  The archives of this mailing list  are
> searchable.
>
> Will Johnson
>
>
>
> In a message dated 7/30/2009 8:21:43 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> sean at silentflame.com writes:
>
> Greetings,
>
> The IRC Group Contacts decided last year to hold  a surgery every three
> months where general IRC matters could be brought up  for discussion in
> an environment in which IRC people able to put those into  action
> (which includes all the contacts themselves) were present  and
> involved. Regrettably it took just over a year for the second  meeting
> to be organised, but this pattern will not be  repeated!
>
> Therefore we invite you to  visit
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Group_Contacts/Meetings/August_2009>
> and  sign up for the meeting if you are someone interested in how IRC
> runs and  especially if you are responsible for one or more channels.
> That page will  shortly contain procedural information on how we intend
> to structure the  meeting to get the most out of it. For convenience, I
> shall note that the  meeting is at 1900Z on 3rd August 2009 in
> #wikimedia-irc-meetings on  freenode.
>
> Yours,
>
> Sean Whitton (seanw on IRC)
> For the IRC  Group Contacts
>
> I have posted this message to the main public mailing  lists to which I
> subscribe and would appreciate circulation of the  meeting's existence
> to as many other languages/projects as possible as this  is open to all
> - but please note that the meeting will be held in  English.
>
> -- 
> Sean Whitton / <sean at silentflame.com>
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