This idea goes sound good, however, Waartaa seems to be buggy (right now). I gave it a shot, but it wouldn't parse chat correctly, it had trouble displaying messages from others. Sounds like a good idea, though. On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Ratnadeep Debnath <rtnpro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 02:41:52AM +0530, Ratnadeep Debnath wrote: >>> >> Oooooooooooooh!!!!! Great idea! Getting up and running on IRC has >>> >> been a barrier for some new contributors, particularly in the design >>> >> space. This would be really nice! >>> > I convinced prospective Flock speaker Ratnadeep Debnath to join this mailing >>> > list for further discussion. Hello, Ratnadeep! >>> Thanks Matthew for inviting me to this list :) >> >> Yes -- and thanks for the overview. What do you think about how this fits >> into >> http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2014/04/01/a-proposal-for-fedoras-website-considering-fedora-next/ >> ? >> >> I'd love for the Flock talk to be not just an overview, but a presentation >> of how it fits into our new web site. :) > > Yes, of course, it will be more than just an overview :). > > I and Sayan[1] have been brainstorming on building features which can > fit to the requirements of open source communities for quite some time > now. Some interesting ideas also came up when we were discussing with > students who have applied to Waartaa for GSoC 2014. Assuming that we > have waartaa running for Fedora at irc.fedoraproject.org, let me > elaborate the ideas we have so far come up with, which will be useful > for the Fedora Next project. > > [EasyStart] Permalink to IRC channels > ============================ > > Permalinks to IRC channels, say, > irc.fedoraproject.org/chat/server/Freenode/channel/fedora in a project > pages will make it no brainer for a new user to join an IRC channel > and start communicating. > > > [Intuitive and easy] UI endpoints for 80-90% for IRC functionalities > =============================================== > > We try to expose as many IRC functions as possible to the UI along > with command options for advanced users. That said, we'll also have in > page docs to help users learn various IRC commands and concepts. > Something like Mozilla's GCLI[2] tool can be used to implement in page > docs. > > > [EasyStart] Wizard for (first time) users > ============================= > > Whenever a user joins irc.fedoraproject.org (powered by Waartaa), the > user can be shown a wizard (inspired by > http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/) to dovetail the user to join > proper channels without bombarding with info (bunch of server names, > channel names, etc.). May be we can show the groups listed at "Join > Fedora" page[3] and then the channels specific to each group under > them. > > > [Administration] Managing channel logs archives and minutes of meetings > ===================================================== > > We'll be working on to build an extensive channel chat log search > framework this summer, either as part of GSoC or ourselves. This will > come very handy to archive channel logs in a way that it can be > queried. Also, we could integrate zodbot with Waartaa so that we can > store and browse through meeting logs in a better way, unlike the > current meetbot log page[4] for Fedora. Our log search framework would > help to query through the meeting logs very easily. > > > Beautiful and intuitive > =============== > > One of the prime focus of Waartaa is to create a beautiful and > intuitive open source communication tool at par with or better than > the proprietary communication tools. I believ that Máirín can help > Waartaa in this regard :) > > > I believe, the above ideas, if implemented properly, will make > community communication over IRC lot more fun and memorable :) > > > Please share your ideas and feedback on how to make Waartaa better so > that it could be of use to Fedora Next and the community in general. > > > [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sayanchowdhury > [2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/GCLI > [3]: http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora > [4]: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ > > Regards, > rtnpro > -- > Ratnadeep Debnath, > https://www.waartaa.com > GPG Fingerprint: 033C 8041 A0E9 CDBA 2E02 B785 2119 5486 F245 DFD6 > -- > websites mailing list > websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites -- websites mailing list websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
