brainstorming for UDS-N - Package Selection and Defaults

[Vishnoo]

On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 18:01 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Thursday, September 30, 2010 05:22:48 pm Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 15:52, Jorge O. Castro <jorge at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > You are both correct, what an opportune time to finally get rid of the
> > > insane notion that an operating system needs an IRC client by default!
> > > 
> > > (I am totally serious, and flames offlist please. :) )
> > 
> > I have to agree with Jorge here.  Outside of my geeky friends and fellow
> > Ubuntu developers, most people don't know what IRC even is.
> 
> The only mode of real-time tech support within the Ubuntu community?
> 

IMO, What the LoCo site has done is absolutely neat.
If its only about getting help out for the new users something like this
would lower the barrier a lot :
<http://loco.ubuntu.com/irc/>

All somebody wants is help at *that* moment, no need for a default IRC
client. 
Maybe just a link directing to something official like
<http://support.ubuntu.com/irc/> would be sufficient? 

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Cheers,
Vish