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The subscribers for many lists with non-private rosters can be viewed by visiting this URL, http://lists.laptop.org/mailman/roster/<listname>.(Community-news and Devel, at least, have private rosters.) One must first have joined a list and signed in at the http://lists.laptop.org/options/<listname> URL. (The "Visit Subscriber List" button on the listinfo page (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/<listname>) does not currently work.) |
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Revision as of 18:42, 27 April 2008
The primary OLPC communication channels are mailing lists, IRC channels, and discussion forums.
Forums
There are a number of active OLPC forums, including
- http://forum.laptop.org/ The official support forum for G1G1 and OLPC
- total posts 6.887 • Total topics 1.324 • Total members 1.609 Yamaplos 22:56, 20 April 2008 (EDT)
- http://olpcnews.com/forum/ A popular forum but not frequented by developers
- total posts 20.765 • Total topics 2.332 • Total members 2.754 Yamaplos 22:56, 20 April 2008 (EDT)
Blogs
OLPC planet 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.
Mailing lists
see also Community mailing lists
The full list of mailing lists is at http://lists.laptop.org. Sometimes they multiply when one isn't watching.
Lists can be searched with google.
There are also many other mailing lists on topics related to the OLPC project.
Starting a list
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. Then create a page here about the list you want to start, with a brief description. Finally, add a link from this page and leave a note for sj or ivan.
Public lists
This collection of mailing lists almost certainly out-of-date by the time you read this.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
General discussion
Country discussions
Accessibility and other end-use issues
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Software and content development
Hardware and other tech discussions
Technical announcements
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Subscriber lists
The subscribers for many lists with non-private rosters can be viewed by visiting this URL, http://lists.laptop.org/mailman/roster/<listname>.(Community-news and Devel, at least, have private rosters.) One must first have joined a list and signed in at the http://lists.laptop.org/options/<listname> URL. (The "Visit Subscriber List" button on the listinfo page (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/<listname>) does not currently work.)
Chat
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</imagemap>Most OLPC chat takes place on IRC (that's Internet Relay Chat). See also the older IRC page.
IRC
IRC is mainly designed for group communication in discussion 'channels', but allows for personal chat and data transfer as well.
The OLPC Community uses a series of channels in the irc.freenode.net and irc.oftc.net networks. Check {{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.
irc.freenode.net channels
| General: | |
| #olpc-help | Community help. If you need help using your XO, and you haven't asked anywhere else: try here first. |
| ##g1g1 | G1G1 chatter |
| #olpc | 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. |
| #olpc-content | content related matters and general discussion. |
| #olpc-meeting | OLPC meeting, developer's meeting room |
| #sugar | Sugar development. |
| Primary Community Channels | |
| #olpc-groups | Global channel for all local communities (no language barriers) |
| #olpc-health | Global channel for all health-related communities (English) |
| Secondary Community Channels | |
| #olpc-es | Spanish language channel |
| #olpc-brasil | Portugese language channel |
| #olpc-europe | Regional discussions for Europe |
irc.oftc.net channels
- #olpc-devel — for core systems and other development, now that #olpc is truly becoming a general discussion channel
- #schoolserver — dedicated to the School server
- #debian-olpc — dedicated to porting Debian to the XO
How to use irc channels
- For the #olpc-help channel you can visit the Live Web Chat.
- Another web-based chat for all channels is mibbit, with nickname: (whatever you like), server: irc.freenode.net, and channel: #olpc-help (or whatever other channel you're trying to get into).
- Some helpful resources are here, and this tutorial, which also includes basic commands.
- Learn about IRC etiquette. Try here, here, or here.
- Review the software client list. Pick one, download, install. A good all-around choice is Xchat (windows users), which works on both Linux and Windows; Linuxchix has a good tutorial.
- For IRC on your XO, install the latest XoIRC activity.
- 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 #olpc-help channel is probably the place you want to go first).
- Note OLPC growing pains.
Other chat services
If there are any Skype, AIM, or other chatrooms about OLPC, please list them here.