Fw: Communication Bridges?

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Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> Alot of people find it hard to connect to an IRC channel, specially 
> when using Gaim. I like to help on that field, so I made a simple app, 
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuLiveChatSupport 
> <http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuLiveChatSupport>
> honestly, I really couldn't figure out how to put it in ubuntu, you 
> know I'll be really happy if someone just put it in their repository, 
> even if it's unofficial and manually putting it on their sources.list.
>
> I think alot of people in the community want to help on ubuntu, they 
> just don't know how.
>
> On 9/12/06, *Peter Garrett* < peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au 
> <mailto:peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     I am forwarding a post I made to ubuntu-devel in response to concerns
>     expressed by Matt Zimmerman. Please contribute to the wiki page any
>     answers or concerns you may have regarding this. Discussion can
>     continue
>     on sounder, if you are interested in the subject.
>
>     I notice that a thread has appeared on the forums:
>
>     http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=255516
>
>     to which I have replied at
>
>     http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1488924&postcount=29
>     <http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1488924&postcount=29>
>
>     Begin forwarded message:
>
>     Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:15:16 +1000
>     From: Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
>     <mailto:peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>>
>     To: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>     <mailto:ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
>     Subject: Communication Bridges?
>
>
>     On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:57:06 -0700
>     Matt Zimmerman < mdz at ubuntu.com <mailto:mdz at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>     > There is an unfortunate communication gap between the forums and
>     other
>     > communication channels such as IRC and the mailing lists, and I
>     would like
>     > to find a way to address it.  Grieving over this fact doesn't
>     help, but I am
>     > always open to hearing *constructive* ideas about how to promote
>     better
>     > communication within the project.
>
>     I don't have an answer of my own, but I think this is an important
>     issue
>     for Ubuntu.
>
>     As a tentative first step I have created
>
>     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BridgingUbuntu
>
>     As a place holder for discussion of communication, and a place to air
>     grievances and/or suggest solutions.
>
>     There is no bug tracker for internal community communication bugs,
>     as far
>     as I know ;-)
>
>     This is not directly on topic for -devel of course, but I have
>     sent it in
>     answer to Matt's post.
>
>     If this is seen as a good idea, I will post to -users and sounder.
>
>     Peter
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Hi,
I know a lot of people cannot use irc because they are behind work 
proxies and lack the skills to ssh tunnel.
something like an online interface could work here...sort of like:
http://chat.indymedia.org/
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Ian

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