<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.28.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 10:30 -0400, idleone wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> 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. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Please have a look at <A HREF="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/ChannelList">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/ChannelList</A> , which (hopefully) lists all our channels. Your suggestion would make all of them "core channels", save the few explicitly offtopic channels. I'm afraid we would have a hard time managing the resulting workload. :-) Also note that being "core" is not connected to being "important", as stated in my original message. I think, and I may be wrong, that we do have an idea of what the core channels should be (and that they pretty much are already listed in the Scope wiki page). We're not looking to change this vague idea but define it. New channels may, however, be required at some point in the future (of which we know little about!) and a clear definition would be useful at that point. Cheers, Juha </BODY> </HTML>