Hi Friends, I'm replying to the "Re: [Inkscape-devel] Web IRC client - support troubles" thread, but it's sort of a different topic, so I changed the title, so it doesn't get confused.
The website team have added the feature in order to make the community more integrated.
Speaking of making the community more integrated, in addition to having a chat functionality, I think it would be ideal to have an official forum associated with the website. There are several free forum softwares available, which should be able to be integrated with the site, fairly easily (at least as far as I understand). And some even include chat features, although I don't think any have IRC chat. So having a forum would not necessarily require someone to program it for the website.
I suppose there must be a reason why there's no forum, and why there has been no discussion of a forum, at least as long as I've been helping on the website (and joined the devel list). I don't know what that reason might be, but I would be interested to learn it.
All best, brynn
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...400...> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 10:13 AM To: "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...> Cc: "inkscape-devel" <inkscape-devel@...6...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Web IRC client - support troubles
On 20 May 2015 at 01:19, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
Compounding the problem, I think the IRC support crew feel a bit disempowered: The web irc client is part of the website and thus maintained by the website maintainers.
The website team have added the feature in order to make the community more integrated. I would love to see the irc focused people look after the page so long as the style remains consistent with the website.
The fear I have is that the irc team wish to remove the irc chat plugin because it's inconvenient. Seeing no value in participation from people using the web chat. I'd like to keep irc functionality on the website as it's provides a sense of an unsegregated project. Once we have the mailing lists (and their logs) properly intergrated, the project should feel more like a cohesive whole and not separate channels of communication.
But as Maren has posted, we could do with help too. If there's a good programmer who knows how to integrate IRC into a python based website's backend, then we might be able to use website messages instead of an irc plugin. But that's a pretty big job in itself. There are issues, but I think they're more technical than informational (warnings etc).
Best Regards, Martin Owens
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