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The primary OLPC '''communication channels''' are [[#Mailing lists|mailing lists]], [[#IRC|IRC channels]], and [[#Forums|discussion forums]]. |
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Our primary communication channels are mail and blogs. |
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== Mail == |
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We use mail for private messages. See: [[Contact us]]. |
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== Forums == |
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There are a number of active OLPC forums, including |
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* http://forum.laptop.org/ |
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:total posts 6.887 • Total topics 1.324 • Total members 1.609 <sub>[[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] 22:56, 20 April 2008 (EDT)</sub> |
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* http://olpcnews.com/forum/ |
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:total posts 20.765 • Total topics 2.332 • Total members 2.754 <sub>[[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] 22:56, 20 April 2008 (EDT)</sub> |
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== Blogs == |
== Blogs == |
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We use a blog for public announcements. See: [[Blogs]]. |
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[http://planet.laptop.org Planet OLPC] aggregates a number of popular blogs on OLPC topics. See [[blogs]] for a list of these blogs and instructions on adding more blogs to this feed. |
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[http://www.olpcnews.com/ OLPC News] publishes opinion pieces from the most diverse sources, mostly OLPC volunteers, sometimes OLPC employees, and the general public. The "comments" section for every article opens debate and diversity of opinion, including celebration and criticism of official OLPC decisions. |
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<br>Editors: originally Wayan Vota, now Bryan Berry and Christoph Derndorfer.<br><sub>full disclosure: I am currently the editor for Latinamerica there [[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] 20:23, 6 July 2008 (UTC)</sub> |
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== Chat == |
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Most OLPC chat takes place on IRC (that's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC Internet Relay Chat]). See also the older [[IRC]] page. |
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=== IRC === |
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IRC is mainly designed for group communication in discussion 'channels', but allows for personal chat and data transfer as well. |
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The OLPC Community uses a series of ''channels'' in the '''<tt>irc.freenode.net</tt>''' and <tt>irc.oftc.net</tt> networks. Check {{tl|User irc}} to see how to register your participation in the IRC channels within the wiki, and to find the category where users are registered. |
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==== irc.freenode.net channels ==== |
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| colspan=2 style="background:lightyellow; border:1px solid black;" | '''General:''' |
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| <tt>#olpc-help</tt> || Community help. If you need help using your XO, and you haven't asked anywhere else: try here first. |
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| <tt>#olpc-ayuda</tt> || The Spanish language (Español) version of #olpc-help. |
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| <tt>##g1g1</tt> || G1G1 chatter |
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| width=200px | <tt>#olpc</tt> || Contact point for all things olpc, ''and'' the core hardware development team's own channel. Picture a room where the knowledgeable core people are hard at work. It is a good place for authoritative answers, but people may be out, or too busy to respond, or don't want interruptions at the moment. '''Consider going to #olpc-help first.''' |
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| <tt>#olpc-content</tt> || [[content]] related matters and general discussion. |
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| <tt>#olpc-meeting</tt> || OLPC meeting, developer's meeting room |
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| <tt>#sugar</tt> || [[Sugar]] development. |
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| colspan=2 style="background:lightyellow; border:1px solid black;" | '''Primary Community Channels''' |
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| <tt>#olpc-groups</tt> || Global channel for all local communities (no language barriers) |
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| <tt>#olpc-health</tt> || Global channel for all health-related communities (English) |
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| colspan=2 style="background:lightyellow; border:1px solid black;" | '''Secondary Community Channels |
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| <tt>#olpc-es</tt> || [[Spanish]] language channel |
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| <tt>#olpc-brasil</tt> || [[Portuguese_language|Portuguese]] language channel |
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| <tt>#olpc-europe</tt> || Regional discussions for [[OLPC Europe|Europe]] |
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==== irc.oftc.net channels ==== |
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* <tt>#olpc-devel</tt> — for core systems and other development, now that #olpc is truly becoming a general discussion channel |
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* <tt>#schoolserver</tt> — dedicated to the [[School server]] |
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* <tt>#debian-olpc</tt> — dedicated to porting Debian to the XO |
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[[Communication_channels/IRC_other|other channels]] |
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=== How to use irc channels === |
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# For the #olpc-help channel you can visit the [http://en.forum.laptop.org/chat/ Live Web Chat]. |
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# Another web-based chat for all channels is [http://www.mibbit.com mibbit], with nickname: (whatever you like), server: irc.freenode.net, and channel: #olpc-help (or whatever other channel you're trying to get into). |
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# Some helpful resources are [http://www.mirc.com/irc.html here], and [http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html this tutorial], which also includes basic commands. |
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# Learn about IRC etiquette. Try [http://www.ircbeginner.com/ircinfo/etiquette.html here], [http://www.livinginternet.com/r/ru_chatq.htm here], or [http://www.wxwidgets.org/wiki/index.php/IRC_Etiquette here]. |
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# Review the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients software client list]. Pick one, download, install. A good all-around choice is [http://www.xchat.org/ Xchat] ([http://silverex.info/news/ windows users]), which works on both Linux and Windows; ''Linuxchix'' has a good [http://www.linuxchix.org/connecting-linuxchix-irc-using-xchat.html tutorial]. |
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#* For IRC on your XO, install the latest '''[[XoIRC]]''' activity. |
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# Connect to one of the above channels, and say hello. (To do this, choose irc.freenode.net as your server, and then /join a channel... if you're new to IRC, the [irc://freenode/#olpc-help #olpc-help] channel is probably the place you want to go first). |
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# Note [[OLPC growing pains]]. |
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=== Other chat services === |
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If there are any [[Skype]], AIM, or other chatrooms about OLPC, please list them here. |
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== Mailing lists == |
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''see also [[Community mailing lists]]'' |
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The full list of mailing lists is at '''http://lists.laptop.org'''. Sometimes they multiply when one isn't watching. |
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Lists can be searched [http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&cof=&domains=lists.laptop.org&btnG=Search&sitesearch=lists.laptop.org with google]. |
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There are also many other [[Outside mailing lists|mailing lists]] on topics related to the OLPC project. |
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===Starting a list=== |
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The best way to start a new mailing list is to begin a discussion on a related list that already exists, and once the discussion becomes active, to ask for a separate list for that topic or that sort of traffic. |
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When you have a critical mass of people regularly talking about the same topic, request a mailing list by emailing the following information to '''sysadmin''' at '''laptop''' dot '''org''': |
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# The name you want for your mailing list, with alternative names if the first one is taken |
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# A description of the list, its purpose, and why it's needed (being able to say "we've been talking on this other list for a while, and the discussion has grown too big - see these archive links" is helpful) |
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# The name/email of the list admin, and of at least one other moderator (minimum one admin and one moderator) |
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# At least 10 names/emails of people who want to be the initial subscribers |
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It may take a while (usually several days) to hear a response back, so please be patient! |
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===Public lists=== |
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{{Obsolete|link=http://lists.laptop.org}} |
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This collection of mailing lists almost certainly out-of-date by the time you read this. For a complete listing go to '''http://lists.laptop.org'''. |
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'''General announcements''' |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/community-news Community-news] Weekly community news |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel-machines Devel-machines] OLPC Developer Machine mailing list (''for people with development machines'') |
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'''General discussion''' |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open Olpc-open] General OLPC community discussion and chit-chat |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots Grassroots] A mailing list connecting all the local communities |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/research Research] Research related to OLPC |
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'''Country discussions''' |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/argentina Argentina] [no description available] |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/brasil Brasil] OLPC in Brasil |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/egypt-opensource Egypt-opensource] Discussion of open source in Egypt |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india India] OLPC in India |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/nepal Nepal] OLPC in Nepal |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/nigeria-opensource Nigeria-opensource] Discussion of open source in Nigeria |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/peru Peru] [no description available] |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch Switzerland] [[OLPC Switzerland]] |
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'''Accessibility and other end-use issues''' |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility Accessibility] |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/aop Issues around policy: especially privacy, security, and information-flow] (as of Jan. '08, appears only to be a spam-infested swamp) |
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'''Software and content development''' |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel Devel] Software development mailing list |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar Sugar] Discussion of OLPC design, desktop platform and user experience |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/gsoc GSoC] Google [[Summer_of_Code|Summer of Code]] mailing list |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/etoys Etoys] Discussion of the Etoys multi-media authoring environment on OLPC |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/games Games] Games for the OLPC |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library Library] OLPC content discussions |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/health Health] OLPC [[Health]] project mailing list |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization Localization] Localization the OLPC project |
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'''Hardware and other tech discussions''' |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/security Security] OLPC Security Discussion |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/linux-mm-cc linux-mm-cc] Compressed Caching for Linux |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/networking Networking] Networking the OLPC world |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/Server-devel Server devel] [[School Server]] development mailing list |
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'''Technical announcements''' |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/bugs Bugs] OLPC bugtracker mail |
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* Commits-kernel Commits list for OLPC kernel; (''rumoured to exist. deprecated?'') |
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* [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel-boards Devel-boards] OLPC Developer Machine mailing list (''deprecated'') |
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* Hardware-announce (''rumoured to exist, deprecated.'') |
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====List subscribers==== |
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The subscribers for many lists with non-private rosters can be viewed by visiting this web address, <nowiki>http://lists.laptop.org/mailman/roster/</nowiki><listname>. (Community-news and Devel, at least, have private rosters.) One must first have joined a list and signed in at the <nowiki>http://lists.laptop.org/options/</nowiki><listname> address. (The "Visit Subscriber List" button on the listinfo page (<nowiki>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/</nowiki><listname>) does not currently work.) |
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[[Category:Sugar]] |
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