Bringing newly-installed users into the community (Re: Should XChat default to freenode and #ubuntu?)

[Enrico Zini]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 07:09:57AM +0800, Senectus . wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:01:00 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > I wouldn't want to send the user to a discussion/support channel with an
> > implicit guarantee of support, so perhaps "Chat with other Ubuntu users"
> > instead.
> > I am interested in finding ways to connect new users with the Ubuntu
> > community (forums, chat, wiki, etc.), but we need to carefully consider the
> > effects before we implement them.
> The other problem I see is that with channels as prolific and active
> as Ubuntu is turning out to be (remember its popularity hasn't slowed
> it's accelerated growth yet *scary*), That IRC channel is becoming
> _very_ busy.
> That alone makes it quite daunting for new users.

In the past I've been proposing to create a #ubuntu-welcome channel and
an ubuntu-welcome mailing list where new users could freely subscribe
and play safely.

My idea was to use such a list and channel as examples in all the
documentation about joining IRC channels and mailing lists, plus in all
the tutorials about installing ubuntu and getting online.

Could this be a good way to do what is wanted in this thread?


Ciao,

Enrico

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