applebuntu IRC channel?

[franki.macha]

would anyone here be interested in an IRC channel for the users of this forum?

personally i think it'd be a great idea, mostly since i'm fed up of asking silly questions on the forum :D
i mean, i do frequent #ubuntu and #ubuntu-uk on freenode, but #ubuntu is generally too busy to get much sense, in my experience, and as far as i know no one in #ubuntu-uk uses a mac.

anyway, i'm sure most of you have some opinion and experience of irc, so, who thinks it's a good idea?

[McFrostey]

That would be a great idea... that would be my all time channel

[franki.macha]

it looks like it's just you and me then mcfrostey...

but it seems like a shame for this idea to die when no one even voted against it.

[noriek]

Hi both.

Personally I'd find a repository of basic completely jargon free FAQs more useful. It's my experience that most people posting to this section of the forum and are complete newbies, myself included, so I feel a static archive with info on each topic of setup would be more useful. I've always found this type of learning useful basis for further research and graduating on to more difficult topics, tho the question remains, who would write them? But I think that would equally be the case for an IRC channel, would there be enough knowledgeable people to staff it whenever assistance is required?

This is certainly not an attempt to dissuade tho, doubtless another useful resource would be welcomed on the whole. I just wonder if it would be the most productive method given, in my view, level at which many of us are working.

What do you think?

[mkvnmtr]

I have been thinking about this and I don't know if it would be better than using the forums. It seems that people using the forums sort of pop in ask or answer a question and then go about there business. We come back latter to see the response. Trying to solve powerpc problems it might be a day or two before someone with the knowledge to help has time to get to the forum. Then the problems and solutions are there for all to reference. I don't know how many times an old thread has helped me with a problem.As I understand it IRC would be more like live help and would be harder to encounter in 3 months for someone with the same problem. While it might help the one person with the problem what about the community that has the same problem later. On powerpc there doesn't seem like there are very many people that can really help and they all can only devote a little time. I have come to know most of them and I like to be able to see how they have helped people with there problems and like to refer back later. I am not sure if I would find IRC useful or not.

[McFrostey]

This channel will allow PowerPC/Intel users to talk with ease since we usually have to wait for a respnonce with the forums... plus we can teach each other

Lets say you have a problem and you ask in the forums and they tell you to do this, alright so you do it... and something still didnt work it will take longer to get another answer

but if us mac users had our own channel we could explain with ease and not have to wait.

i had to wait 4days of nonstop posting on forums to get my iMac G4 to run but if i would used an xchat channel i could be done in 30 minutes.

[rjcalifornia]

I will like an Applebuntu IRC Channel. I'll be in there too!! I'm rj california in the regular channel :D

[cyberdork33]

Personally I'd find a repository of basic completely jargon free FAQs more useful. It's my experience that most people posting to this section of the forum and are complete newbies, myself included, so I feel a static archive with info on each topic of setup would be more useful. I've always found this type of learning useful basis for further research and graduating on to more difficult topics, tho the question remains, who would write them?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSupportTeam/CommunityHelpPages

I would probably pop into an apple ubuntu channel. It is difficult to have powerpc and intel macs combined though. They are really completely different systems and the information for both together is more confusing.

[noriek]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSupportTeam/CommunityHelpPages



Haha, Such a good idea that it already exists! thanks for that one.

Cheers

:)

[cyberdork33]

Haha, Such a good idea that it already exists! thanks for that one.

Cheers

:)
Please feel free to contribute. The pages are in a lot of flux right now.

[franki.macha]

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21:28:48 < franki^> hi

well, it exists already, maybe i'll see you there :)

[DPic]

i came here looking for this-- i tried joining the channel earlier but it was empty. I'm in there now =]