Opinions on #ubuntu-discuss (for IRCC meeting)

[IdleOne]

Hello,

I agree with Jussi, although there is very little activity in the 
channel it does not cost us anything to keep the channel open.

IdleOne.

On 12-11-13 10:05 AM, Jussi Schultink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Thomas Ward
> <trekcaptainusa-tw at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> I won't be around for the IRCC meeting, so for all intents and purposes i'd
>> like my opinions to be stated anyways.
>>
> I likewise won't be around, so I may as well have my say also.
>
>> So this is basically quoting from my blog, but...
>>
>>
>> Several IRCC meetings ago, the IRCC decided to try and run an “experiment”
>> to move Ubuntu-related non-support out of #ubuntu-offtopic, and into
>> #ubuntu-discuss.
>>
>> While the concept was sound, and was agreed upon in a majority, there’s
>> some… operational flaws… i think need to be discussed.
> The concept is still sound, nothing has changed there.
>> The IRCC meeting on November 25, 2012, has a discussion on this in its
>> agenda. I won’t be there to provide my views, since i’m stuck on a bus all
>> day that day. But, here’s my opinions:
>>
>> * The concept was sound, but there was little to no encouragement for users
>> in #ubuntu to bring ubuntu-related discussion to the discuss channel.
>> * Very little awareness to the community of the -discuss channel resulted in
>> very little usage.
>> * Very little actual discussion was brought up in channels, and where some
>> discussion may have occurred, nobody was there to discuss it
> I agree with you here, there has been very little encouragement, and
> not much advertising. It was supposed to be that canonical would add
> this as the discussion channel to their announcements, but that hasn't
> happened - I suspect because my telling of Jono didn't get through
> when everything except one important thing flew out of his head.
>
> It seems to me that pretty much all of the problems can be remedied by
> a bit of marketing and advertisement - as you ahve mentioned before,
> the concept is sound.
>
> I would be very disappointed if the channel is removed - there is no
> reason t remove it, it is not causing any issues, nor ay overhead - we
> just need to give it some more advertisement, preferably via Factoid
> and Canonical announcement inclusion.
>
> Jussi
>
>
>>
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