[UbuntuWomen] IRC meeting with Jono and IRC bot

[Melissa Draper]

Jan Claeys wrote:
> Op vrijdag 27-04-2007 om 07:25 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Elizabeth
> Bevilacqua:
>   
>> This has been discussed by the IRC team before and we've decided that
>> the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. Women join the channel to
>> learn how to use IRC, how to get into the community, and the questions
>> asked are not always questions you want published openly on the
>> internet. We want to continue to respect that so people are
>> comfortable joining our channel to learn. 
>>     
>
> During the last months, I haven't seen any questions that would give a
> bad impression about someone (except for some trolls coming into the
> channel, but I suppose you don't care much about _them_ ;) ).
>
> OTOH, some people might feel shy, but I wonder if they would ask
> questions in a group (channel) of 30 people then anyway...?
The problem is not being shy about asking, but rather being shy about
your newbie question, or trauma/ordeal and reactions regarding said
ordeal, being publicly logged and cached in Google forevermore to be
found if someone later searches you via your nick

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Melissa Draper

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