Re: #ingres IRC channel on freenode.net


Hi Roy,

You raise a good point. I'm just one guy, and thus I can't provide the
definitive answer one way or the other. My experience with IRC has
been very positive so personally, I feel there is value.

A quick check of the channels such as #mysql, #postgresql, and #linux
shows serious numbers and interest. There are smaller channels for
budding open source projects as well.

I find IRC a complement to email lists and other forms of
communication rather than a substitute. I believe it *could* spread
our numbers thinner, but it also could help grow them by making it
easier to get involved.

I'd be interested in what others think?

Andrew


On Mar 24, 1:42 pm, "Roy Hann" <specia...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi Everyone,

By popular request, I have created a #ingres channel on
irc.freenode.net. I invite you to join me in the channel.

You can do so with any number of IRC clients (including free ones) as
well as a number of web sites offering free access.

I completely understand the desire to be ubiquitous and to have a presence
everywhere, but I am just not convinced the way to grow community is by
dispersing the interested participants as thinly as possible over every
available forum, channel and list. Do we really need this? IRC does not
lend itself to cross-posting or archiving; there's a good chance it might
take traffic away from some of the marginally viable channels that might
otherwise have thrived given a bit more content.

I admit I've misjudged the community feeling on this kind of thing before,
like when I suggested shutting down info-ingres, but the evidence of my own
eyes is that we are dispersing into very small, isolated cliques, with so
few participants that threads rarely run to more than one question and one
answer, and often enough, no answer at all. A newcomer to any one of the
innumerable forums probably looks around and says "this place it dead; they
get barely one posting every couple of days". That's a shame, because
actually there's a lot of posting going on, if you can be bothered to go
around all the houses looking for it.

When it comes to communities, less is more. We need a bustling city not a
hermit colony.

Roy

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