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    <title><![CDATA[Resolve the #ubuntu mess]]></title>
    <link>http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11497/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[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.<br /><br />More problems come when you go to try to figure out how it should be split.<br />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.<br /><br />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.<br />
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<b>[33 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #11497</b>
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  <title>Comment from Eldmannen</title>
  <description><![CDATA[You can join language-specific channels, i.e.<br />#ubuntu-se (Swedish)<br />#ubuntu-it (Italian)<br />#ubuntu-no (Norwegian)<br />#ubuntu-pt (Portuguese)<br />#ubuntu-pl (Polish)<br />#ubuntu-ru (Russian)<br />#ubuntu-es (Spanish)]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Eldmannen</title>
  <description><![CDATA[#ubuntu-website<br />#ubuntu-women<br />#ubuntu-offtopic<br />#ubuntu-bugs<br /><br />#ubuntu-bd (Bangladesh)<br />#ubuntu-za (South Africa)<br />#ubuntu-bg (Bulgaria)]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Eldmannen</title>
  <description><![CDATA[#ubuntu<br />#kubuntu<br />#xubuntu<br />#edubuntu]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Tree MendUs</title>
  <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from _sebastian_</title>
  <description><![CDATA[can't there be some sort of 'bookmarks' in pidgin based on selected time zone/location?]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from ethana2</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Maybe #ubuntu could be a redirect-only channel, a starting point only.<br /><br />People could be sent to #wine, #pidgin, all those..<br />with an #ubuntu-other just to be sure nobody falls completely in between the cracks..]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Eldmannen</title>
  <description><![CDATA[_sebastian_,<br />That would be good.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from jrusinek</title>
  <description><![CDATA[openSUSE has nice IRC channels.<br /><br />#opensuse-buildservice, #opensuse-project, #opensuse-chat, #suse etc.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Gh0st_Pirate</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Great idea!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from ethana2</title>
  <description><![CDATA[I considered time zone and location, but it would need to be done in a way that makes sense with languages.<br /><br />Maybe to determine this we should figure out how big an irc channel should be to be optimally effective?<br /><br />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...<br /><br />Basically using the current ubuntu loco channels for all local support?]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from tommynz1975</title>
  <description><![CDATA[could the channel names be similar to those in ubuntuforums<br /><br />wouild that help?]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from ethana2</title>
  <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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