Czajkowski

Folks may have missed this or indeed just don’t know the new shape up for the Ubuntu Women Project.

Since UDS Lucid we’ve been working on some changes as a team, most know about the Ubuntu team leader, but also a big change was the decision to have a LOGGED CHANNEL. These came about from discussions and meetings discussing the IRC purpose, as again the team is more than IRC.

Many many conversations were happening on IRC and not on mailing list of indeed the forums.  If you weren’t on IRC you missed the information or indeed the lengthy and interesting discussions taking place.  The idea to create a logged channel means if you don’t IRC, not on IRC at the time, and perhaps you don’t run a screen session you don’t lose out on these conversations and discussions, you can catch up and read the logs like many other teams.

We now have two channels and I’d like to point out to folks to perhaps join and update their autojoin

#ubuntu-women-project is the new channel created, it is the logged channel for the Ubuntu Women Project This is the Ubuntu, technical, and project discussions take place, of course social chat is going to happen.

#ubuntu-women is the non logged channel should there be a need to discuss private issues that people may not want logged, it is also marked as the social channel.

If anyone has any questions pop onto IRC and chat to us there

Aloha,  so UDS is around the corner and I’ll be attending it.  I’m really looking forwarding to meeting some of the folks that I met last May and also new people.  UDS Lucid is taking place in Dallas Texas, which is going to be 6 hours behind Irish time folks.  But that shouldn’t be a reason not to take part remotely.

Remote participation is encouraged, via IRC,  Lifestream Gobby and Live Stream.  There are a number of EXTRA channels to join as each room at the venue will have a different track topic in it every hour.  So it’s not by Stream type so you do have to keep an eye on the time table.  I’m posting today so you know in advance.  The Overall discussion, including plenary: #ubuntu-devel-summit changed to #ubuntu-uds on freenode.

Discussion Channels – The tracks are shuffled around different rooms, so the irc channels are /per room/, not per track. Here are the channels, which corresponds to the room of the session in the schedule.

• #ubuntu-uds-waverly
• #ubuntu-uds-stanford
• #ubuntu-uds-madison
• #ubuntu-uds-esmeralda
• #ubuntu-uds-mayflower
• #ubuntu-uds-riviere
• #ubuntu-uds-vinoy
• #ubuntu-uds-presidente
• #ubuntu-uds-riogrande
• #ubuntu-uds-lonestar1
• #ubuntu-uds-lonestar2
• #ubuntu-uds-lonestar3
• #ubuntu-uds-alamo1
• #ubuntu-uds-alamo2

For Icecast – see the link here

A stream of all Ubuntu and UDS posts made to Identi.ca, Twitter, and Flickr can be found at http://summit.ubuntu.com/media/lifestream.html or if you just want to follow a certain track here is a list of them

• @udscommunity

• @udskernel
• @udsqa
• @udsfoundations
• @udsmobile
• @udsdesktop
• @udsserver

Gobby is my new best friend, having used it last May I found it an excellent resource and try and use it whenever I can.  Everyone can take part using this, so an ideal way is to have the IRC channel open, or stream coming in and having the gobby document open. You can see extra thoughts been added here, or reasons for comments made in the channel, you can also add your thoughts here.

• gobby.ubuntu.com

• Gobby is being used at UDS to collaborate on the specifications that are being written and to facilitate remote participation.

To take part, please install Gobby (available in universe) and tell it to connect to gobby.ubuntu.com. You will be presented with a list of documents being edited. During any session or meeting, and particularly at the end of one, please do make a local backup of your documents. WARNING: There is a new gobby in karmic, gobby-infinote, we will NOT be using this at UDS since we need for people on older releases to participate. Ensure you are using the “gobby” package.

Finally, to take part I’d suggest a few things, have the channels joined before hand, a browser open with the timetable on it and remember each Room will have a different track topic in it at different times.  If you have the icecast running, perhaps wear a set of headphones so you can hear better without distractions. If you’re in a channel and someone is talking and they are faint do write on the channel asking them to SPEAK UP YOU CANNOT HEAR THEM! you won’t be the only one!

If you make a comment on IRC and you want it to be conveyed to the people in the room, tell someone, perhaps make it bold so it stands out if it’s a busy discussion.  But do poke again if it was missed and you want it conveyed.

Use gobby, and take part, you are a part of the community also, you’re comments are needed to help shape Lucid. Save the document afterwards locally if you like so you have a reference for it, I found that useful 2-3 months down the line when I wanted to refer to ideas that came up last May.

One other thing, on freenode you are limited to join a maximum of 20 channels.  If you need to join more you need to join #freenode and ask a staffer there to allow you to join 20+ .

Also all of the information and more is here

Good Question! I was recently at an event where I got talking to Paul Walsh who was playing with his phone and he explained that he was twittering. I must admit I did think he was a bit bonkers tbh, why not just text or IM to your friends on your phone. So to be fair he was very helpful and explained to me what it was all about. I shall attempt to do the same.

In plain English, twitter is a way of communicating – telling anyone who will listen to you what you are doing, where you are doing it and why you are doing it. It’s also really useful to you if you are looking for opinions of new products to try out, places to go or in general some information that possibly google cannot solve, you are basically asking for people own experience on something, good bad or indifferent.

So again, why am I using it…… I guess I just said I’d try it for a bit and see if I liked it. As I’ve said before I have other means of communicating with folks, IRC/Gtalk/MSN/IRC/Email but this way allows me to access other folks thoughts on things. I can also let people know what I am doing or if I’ll be somewhere so if they are around can join me or offer advice on where to go. It is very easy to use as I’ve tried to explain to my non techi mates who kinda wonder wtf I am on about when my phone keeps beeping and I’ve to explain it’s twitter messages coming in, there are plenty of ways to interact via your computer clients, web, SMS , and IM so you can keep up to date no matter where you are or what way you chose to interact with the fellow twitters in twitterland

The downside…. It can be slow at times, though this seems to have gotten better in the last few weeks. It’s not to be used as a medium for long conversations, use sms or email or over a drink for those or even blog Thanks to Donncha for helping me add in the youtube video.