Bryce Harrington-5 wrote:
It may not be evident what the value of these are. The IRC sessions are not intended to be comprehensive, but short introductory pieces. The idea is that someone with 0 knowledge on the topic can sit in and absorb enough to whet their appetite.
OK. Didn't fully understand that. I think it would still work better bouncing off even a one page thing prepared before hand. It seemed that the example I linked to before took an hour to get out less than a page worth of material.
Bryce Harrington-5 wrote:
In other cases, unfortunately no documentation exists, but that's okay - the IRC sessions provide a motivation and opportunity to generate them: The teacher might write up some course notes, or the students might help in converting the raw IRC logs into something more formal.
I guess I was thinking that if someone is going to put any effort into thinking about what to say before hand, then it would make sense to use the Wiki as a scratch pad/work in progress. That might also help others who want to collaborate and offer feedback. But if it only happens after the fact, then it's still a win-win situation.
Hopefully this would be an iterative process where last time's IRC chat becomes next time's kick off notes. A lot like the FOSS programming model.
Cheers, Rygle.