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Idea #11497: Resolve the #ubuntu mess

bug This idea was marked as implemented the 4 November 12.
Written by ethana2 the 24 Jul 08 at 20:05. Category: Others. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: Implemented
Rationale
At around one thousand four hundred people in it 24/7, #ubuntu may be the most populous irc channel in the history of mankind. It's so noisy I don't see how anyone ever gets help. Most of the time people just get scared and go to #ubuntu-offtopic or something (guilty)... Without extraneous join/part hiding in pidgin, I'd never even bother with it.

More problems come when you go to try to figure out how it should be split.
I propose #ubuntu and #ubuntu-x64 for a start, and all of you probably have better ideas. Put 'em here. Also, I'd like to know if others observe this to be as much of a problem as I do.

Ubuntu has the largest support community on earth, and as it continues to grow, it's going to need to adapt its community structure to that growth. The longer we wait, the more people in need of help we scare off.

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Written by ethana2 the 24 Jul 08 at 20:05.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 24 Jul 08 at 21:40
You can join language-specific channels, i.e.
#ubuntu-se (Swedish)
#ubuntu-it (Italian)
#ubuntu-no (Norwegian)
#ubuntu-pt (Portuguese)
#ubuntu-pl (Polish)
#ubuntu-ru (Russian)
#ubuntu-es (Spanish)

Eldmannen wrote on the 24 Jul 08 at 21:48
#ubuntu-website
#ubuntu-women
#ubuntu-offtopic
#ubuntu-bugs

#ubuntu-bd (Bangladesh)
#ubuntu-za (South Africa)
#ubuntu-bg (Bulgaria)

Eldmannen wrote on the 24 Jul 08 at 21:50
#ubuntu
#kubuntu
#xubuntu
#edubuntu

Tree MendUs wrote on the 24 Jul 08 at 23:10
Perhaps the helpful links provided above could be made more obviously available on the Ubuntu help sites, so people can quickly find their way to the best source of help.

_sebastian_ wrote on the 25 Jul 08 at 05:54
can't there be some sort of 'bookmarks' in pidgin based on selected time zone/location?

ethana2 wrote on the 25 Jul 08 at 06:29
Maybe #ubuntu could be a redirect-only channel, a starting point only.

People could be sent to #wine, #pidgin, all those..
with an #ubuntu-other just to be sure nobody falls completely in between the cracks..

Eldmannen wrote on the 25 Jul 08 at 10:18
_sebastian_,
That would be good.

jrusinek wrote on the 26 Jul 08 at 16:26
openSUSE has nice IRC channels.

#opensuse-buildservice, #opensuse-project, #opensuse-chat, #suse etc.

Gh0st_Pirate wrote on the 1 Aug 08 at 05:37
Great idea!

ethana2 wrote on the 1 Aug 08 at 05:40
I considered time zone and location, but it would need to be done in a way that makes sense with languages.

Maybe to determine this we should figure out how big an irc channel should be to be optimally effective?

200, perhaps? That is to say, if you had lojban ubuntu users all over the world, they just get a language channel, but with, say, english, it could go by city. That may also encourage community participation and such...

Basically using the current ubuntu loco channels for all local support?

tommynz1975 wrote on the 27 Aug 08 at 01:45
could the channel names be similar to those in ubuntuforums

wouild that help?

ethana2 wrote on the 5 Jan 09 at 07:18
tommy, pairing forum sections and irc channels is also a good thought, I didn't consider that one. Just about anything would help, and I think your idea may be one of the better ones.

Vahan Harutyunyan (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 4 Nov 12 at 10:53
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/ChannelList

Marking as implemented.


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