[ubuntu-za] Proposal: IRC autojoin #ubuntu-za instead of #ubuntu

[Yusuf Mitha]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Morgan Collett <morgan at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> See this idea proposed on the loco-contacts mailing list. How should we
> respond?
>
> Let's discuss in the IRC meeting tomorrow.
>
> Regards
> Morgan
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jorge O. Castro <jorge at ubuntu.com>
> Date: Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:51
> Subject: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC
> To: "Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts"
> <loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Right now in our IRC clients when you launch them we autojoin them to
> #ubuntu. This makes the channel unwieldy, see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/392799
>
> I was wondering how people felt about having the users join
> #ubuntu-COUNTRYCODE instead, so depending on your locale it would join
> you to that channel instead of #ubuntu. How do you feel about this,
> would it be useful for LoCo's or do you feel like you would get
> "spammed" by random users?
>
> --
> Jorge Castro
> jorge (at) ubuntu.com
> External Project Developer Relations
> Canonical Ltd.
>
> --
> loco-contacts mailing list
> loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
>
> --
> ubuntu-za mailing list
> ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za
>

Fine. I remember when I first tried irc for some ubuntu related issues. You
would be lucky if your question got answered on #ubutnu. Doing an "Ubuntu
South Africa" search brought me to #ubuntuz-za.

-- 
Yusuf Mitha
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