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Dave Lillethun

Affiliation: Computer Science Dept., Seattle University

Email: lillethd AT seattleu

Website: http://dave.lillethun.org

New to HFOSS. Looking forward to getting started!

How do people interact?
- It seems to flow similar to an Agile / SCRUM type of meeting. Someone has the spotlight and talks about what they're working on - they do most of the talking, and others chime in now and then to offer suggestions, ask questions, etc. Then the spotlight moves to a different person to talk about a topic, and so on. Meanwhile, darci uses the bot to take meeting notes (which aren't shown, but I assume the bot makes a summary of the # commands entered available somewhere...?)

What is the pattern of communication? Is it linear or branched? Formal or informal? One-to-many, one-to-one or a mix?
- There is some branching, but without going too far off topic too long - like Charlie Brown's Christmas Tree, not Yggdrasil. The language is pretty informal, and much of it is one-to-many (with a few many-to-one replies) but some of the branches seem to occasionally go one-to-one just for brief moments.

Are there any terms that seem to have special meaning?
- Starting a message with "Name:" seems to be a common way to address a message to a specific person, and there were one or two uses of /me . Of course, there are the # commands. Also, there are naturally a lot of technical terms being used.

Can you make any other observations?
- A lot of this feels pretty comfortable if you're used to online chat. :)

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 New to HFOSS. Looking forward to getting started!
+=== Intro to IRC activity ===
+* How do people interact?
+** It seems to flow similar to an Agile / SCRUM type of meeting. Someone has the spotlight and talks about what they're working on - they do most of the talking, and others chime in now and then to offer suggestions, ask questions, etc. Then the spotlight moves to a different person to talk about a topic, and so on. Meanwhile, darci uses the bot to take meeting notes (which aren't shown, but I assume the bot makes a summary of the # commands entered available somewhere...?)
+* What is the pattern of communication? Is it linear or branched? Formal or informal? One-to-many, one-to-one or a mix?
+** There is some branching, but without going too far off topic too long - like Charlie Brown's Christmas Tree, not Yggdrasil. The language is pretty informal, and much of it is one-to-many (with a few many-to-one replies) but some of the branches seem to occasionally go one-to-one just for brief moments.
+* Are there any terms that seem to have special meaning?
+** Starting a message with "Name:" seems to be a common way to address a message to a specific person, and there were one or two uses of /me . Of course, there are the # commands. Also, there are naturally a lot of technical terms being used.
+* Can you make any other observations?
+** A lot of this feels pretty comfortable if you're used to online chat.  :)