Daniela Bauer wrote:
> Sorry, I am just not cool enough to surf all these waves.
> I like my cosy London chat room and for the great big world out there
Indeed, it has been useful.
> I use email. Or googlechat. I am not interested to join some mega chat
> room, as once critical mass is reached I won't be able to ask what I
> really want to as I don't want the unavoidable referrals back to
> procedures/policies/etc. when all I am looking for is a hack that
> makes it work and/or an honest (if confidential) assessment why
> something doesn't work.
The ephemeral nature of IRC is on of its attractions, and one of its
downsides.
I have already had useful results from asking questions on the tbsupport
jabber channel. And this afternoon, it looks like it has quickly solved
a problem for me. So I would encourage more people to join.
Interactive things like tbsupport are good for getting an impression
that things are wrong "oh yes, my site is having that problem too, it's
probably not a site issue" and also quick interactive debugging.
Whether google wave, jabber or IRC is better, I'm not sure - and have no
experience of google wave.
> And I've already got way too many windows open on my desktop already.
I think it should remain optional reading (and indeed tb-support
probably should as well). A tb-support-announce or something used for
important announcements that you really need to read.
Chris
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> 2009/11/24 Sam Skipsey <[log in to unmask]>:
>> 2009/11/24 brian davies <[log in to unmask]>:
>>> If everyone who has a wave account who is on tb-support invites two
>>> people to join then soon eveyone would be on.
>>> Brian
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>> I've already invited three. I still have 10 invites to give out, but
>> it'd be nice if someone else pulled people in :D
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>>> 2009/11/24 Ewan MacMahon <[log in to unmask]>:
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
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>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>> This is something of a meta discussion point, but there isn't a
>>>>> TB-SUPPORT_META mailing list, so.
>>>> <snip>
>>>>> Of these, only this list seems to actually get any activity. The Wave
>>>>> is mainly people (okay, Ewan and I) talking about Wave invites and ACL
>>>>> settings.
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>>>> So far. I have hopes that it will become more useful over time.
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>>>>> The jabber conference room seems to have a membership of < 5
>>>>> (Chris Brew, Duncan, Derek, and someone from Scotgrid, usually Dug).
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>>>> I thought it was a good idea, and I've popped in a few times but I've
>>>> never felt it was that useful in practice; Jabber works well for one-
>>>> to-one contact, but it seems that there's not often the critical mass
>>>> necessary to make the chatroom work. I'm hoping that the slightly more
>>>> asynchronous nature of Wave will be a better fit.
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>>>>> Any comments, rationales, mandates from on high?
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>>>> In line with the above, if I had to choose then I'd suggest getting
>>>> everyone on the Wave, ditching the Jabber room, and keeping the mailing
>>>> list much as it is.
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>>>> Ewan
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