RE: combine IRC channels?

We need to come to consensus on which IRC channel the IG will use for meetings. There have been conflicting opinions.

Personally, I'm fine with using either #social or #socialig for meeting minutes. I think I slightly favor hanging out in #social .... but scribing the IG minutes in #socialig.  Seems a bit "cleaner" to me.

But I don't really care. Tantek spoke for all in #social; Owen speaks here for #socialig for minutes; ... others?  Maybe we'll have to discuss this again in the WG meeting next week?

  -- Ann



From: Owen Shepherd [mailto:owen.shepherd@e43.eu]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 10:03 AM
To: Dave Wilkinson; Bassetti, Ann
Cc: public-socialweb@w3.org; public-social-interest@w3.org
Subject: Re: combine IRC channels?

This is something I like in general - the IG and WG are really working on the same thing, and it'd be good to increase the communication between us. I'm also in favor of continuing to use #socialig for meetings, however, as it seems that SocialWG discussions have a tendency to spill over into IG meeting periods (as was demonstrated during the last IG meeting, for example)

- Owen

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:55 PM Dave Wilkinson <wilkie@xomb.org<mailto:wilkie@xomb.org>> wrote:
I think this is a great idea! Almost obviously so. The room should be more #social, after all. :)

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Bassetti, Ann <ann.bassetti@boeing.com<mailto:ann.bassetti@boeing.com>> wrote:
Hello Social WG Folks –

QUESTION:  The Social IG would like to know if it would be OK to combine the IRC channels.  IOW, instead of having both #social and #socialig, we would all use #social.  I brought this up in IRC last week: (http://socialwg.indiewebcamp.com/irc/social/2015-05-29 ).

In general, except for scribing during meetings, the #socialig channel is very quiet. Thus we thought it would be good synergy to use the same channel.

ISSUE:  might be if WG folks want to discuss something during the 1 hour IG call (Wednesdays; 15:00 UTC) – then there would be chatter in channel unrelated to the meeting being scribed, or people would have to wait, or open a new channel.

ALTERNATIVE:  would be for us to use the #socialig channel ONLY for scribing meetings, but hang out in #social for normal day-to-day chat.

As you'll see in the log (link, above), @cwebber2 and @aaronpk both thought it would be OK. Although with a question about the chat-during-meeting that I raise above. I think I prefer the "alternative", wherein we use #socialig only for meetings. What do the rest of you think?

This question / suggestion is part of the item elf added to today's WG agenda (https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/2015-06-02#Coordination_with_IG ).

Thanks – Ann, for the IG