User:Jfrench
Jean (Jeannie) H. French
Jean H. French, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences at Coastal Carolina University (CCU). CCU is a public, liberal arts institution minutes from Myrtle Beach, SC. CCU offers undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. programs to nearly 10,000 students. The Department of Computing Sciences offers Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science, Information Systems, and Information Technology.
Dr. French's main areas of teaching are in Web programming, multimedia, and data sciences. Classroom projects often involve real-world problems for students to solve for the university or industry. Dr. French is highly involved in academic assessment as chair of departmental assessment and ABET accreditation, and also as chair of assessment for all university academic programs. Dr. French also serves as the vice chair of Faculty Senate.
When not teaching and assessing, she is busy raising her two little girls (4 and 6) with her husband. Though she enjoys living in Myrtle Beach, she is one of six children from Boston, Mass. and enjoys heading home to visit family.
DELIVERABLE: Stage 1 - Part A - Intro IRC Activity
Part 1 How do people interact? The interaction was polite and informal conversation with questions, answers, comments, 'at-a-boy confirmations, and some emoticons.
What is the pattern of communication? Is it linear or branched? Formal or informal? One-to-many, one-to-one or a mix? The pattern of communication is informal and branched with mostly one-to-many. For example, informal speech was mentioned in the previous question. The conversation was branched because in the middle of a related thread of comments, there were side comments like "Sorry, Firefox creashed" by Heidi. The conversation was mostly one-to-many because one might have a question, but the others chimed in with suggestions.
Are there any terms that seem to have special meaning? info, action, topic all seem to have special meanings and these terms were evaluated in a special way in the final PDF meeting notes.
What advantages might IRC have over other real-time communication methods (like Google Chat or Facebook Messenger?) Are there potential disadvantages? While I used the Firefox browser plug-in, it was not necessary. There were a number of ways to connect to the conversation. The disadvantage is that this is only text-based. Except for texting content, there was no additional way to convey information such as images, video, or sound.
Can you make any other observations? I noticed that it looked like if a user wanted to get the attention of a particular user, they would type the name of that user.
Bonus question: Why didn't Heidi and Darci's actions get picked up by the meetbot? I really don't see this. There were three #action notes in the conversation by users darci and heidi. All three were included in the meeting summary PDF 18:12:58 <darci> #action amber will try graphviz This was indicated in the summary at 1.c. 18:51:28 <heidi> #action Heidi look into the status of releases in the next week. This was indicated in the summary at 1.h. 19:06:06 <darci> #action Darci will find John some easy Python projects to work on. This was indicated in the summary at 2.a.
For Part 2: N/A
For Part 3: TBA - observations of the chosen IRC channel (either from chosen HFOSS channel or from project channel)
Part 4 (optional): a list of at least 5 commands that will work in the channel they have chosen, and what they mean.
