I would consider using the coming product of Google - Wave Their idea is refreshing ( watch the lecture ): http://wave.google.com/
-------------------------------------------------- Michael Ben-Nes - Internet Consultant and Director. http://www.epoch.co.il - weaving the Net. Cellular: 054-4848113 -------------------------------------------------- On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am involved in a project where I am trying to get some people who > never used IRC or participated in any open source project, and some > of them have never programmed to teach them some programming and > to get them involved in an open source project. > > I encounter several issues in how to get them to use IRC. > > One of them is that they don't find the IRC clients intuitive for them. > > The other one is that they seem to be afraid of talking on the main > project channels. I know it is difficult to wonder in a room full of people > and start talking. It is difficult if the channel is silent and it is > difficult > if people are already talking. The newcommer can feel that > s/he is making noise or interrupting the conversation. > > So I was wondering how to try to solve this? > > We have our own channel for the project where they started to talk > a bit. That's a good step. I was wondering if we should setup a > > #projectname_babytalk or #projectname_kindergarten or #projectname_newbies > channel in the hope that people can start talking there first? > If so what name would you suggest? > > What other strategies do you suggest? > > Gabor > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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