Defining the core channels

[idleone]

On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 15:28 +0200, Juha Siltala wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> The IRC Council would like to be able to answer questions such as
> "What are the Ubuntu core channels on Freenode?" or "How do we get our
> channel included in the group of core channels?" Consequently, we
> trying to create a definition.
> 
> The best approximation we have right now is a list of channels found
> in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcTeam/Scope . It is a list, there is
> no definition. 
> 
> What we can easily gather is a couple of requirements: the CoC must be
> enforced on these channels, and operators of these channels are
> required to idle in #ubuntu-ops. These are concequenses of being a
> core channel, but don't say much about being or becoming one.
> 
> We can see one thing that none of these channels are not. There
> currently are no team channels in the list. It is important to note
> that the concepts of "core" and "important" are not related. The
> documentation team's channels are not in the list, while offtopic
> channels are.
> 
> A shorter and more precise definition would be very good to have. Any
> suggestions?
> 
A core channel to me would be any channel that has a clear and definite
goal. Team channels such as #ubuntu-women-project or #ubuntu-learning
would be good examples. #ubuntu is also, in my mind at least, a core
channel. As for -offtopic* channels I don't think they can be considered
"core" channels as they tend to be more about relaxing and socialising
although still very important to the community because they do give us a
chance to get to know each other.

IdleOne

> Cheers,
> 
> Juha

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