IRC Meeting 1
Revision as of 19:52, 29 April 2013
Our first IRC meeting has several goals:
- To provide an opportunity for everyone to introduce themselves, and start to get to know a few of their fellow participants
- To allow people who have never used IRC a chance to use some basic features and see some features demonstrated
- To briefly discuss HFOSS projects
We expect that some people in the course will be quite familiar with IRC, others will have only passing familiarity, and some to have no prior experience at all. We ask that everyone participate, whether this is completely new or completely familiar.
The discussion will be informal, but to provide some structure, we will loosely follow this agenda:
Agenda
- Introductions - We'll go through the list of attendees and have each person say something about themselves. A sentence or so is fine.
- Discussion of IRC basic features - team members or others present can demonstrate a few basic features. Some that might be covered include:
- Going away and returning
- Using someone's user ID to get their attention
- Use of /me
- Anything else that seems relevant
- Questions about IRC - anyone who has questions about IRC can ask them at any point during the IRC
- Discussion of HFOSS projects - in the weeks ahead we'll be asking you to select an HFOSS project to investigate and to which you might potentially contribute. We'll use this IRC for a short discussion of the projects, perhaps including a few words about student participation in these projects in the past.
At each of the IRC meetings we'll have several of the POSSE team members to facilitate. We've asked people to sign up for different times to accommodate schedules, but also so that everyone will get to talk some without the conversation getting too confusing.
Please do jump in and try things! More than anything, the goal of this meeting is to learn and have some fun playing with IRC.
