Re: An introduction

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:06:39AM +0000 or thereabouts, Patrick Costello wrote:
> 
> > A lot of us hang out on IRC in the #docs channel on irc.gnome.org.
> 
> It must be something to do with the timezone that I am in, Dublin, but
> whenever I log onto the #docs channel, there is no-one there. I would like
> to participate from time to time, but it's a question of knowing when
> anyone is online. Please do not misinterpret my absence from irc as a sign
> of lack of interest. 

I'm sure it's the timezone. I remember when I was first interested
in docs, I would sit on there, and nothing except netsplits would
happen all day. I'd look in scrollback the next morning, and 
there were these two or three other people there and active
in the middle of my night. It took about a week of "hi, if 
you see this in scrollback please tell me if I am in the 
right place" and "yes, hello there" reactions before we 
communicated in anything like real time!

There are now regularly far more than three or four people there,
but when I pop in and out it still seems to be a US timezone:
things start to wake up when the East Coast people arrive for
work, and European evening and nights seems to be when it's
most active. 

Let's invade one EU daytime and leave all sorts of silly
messages in scrollback for them: "Okay, removed all the docs
from everything now" or something :) 

More seriously, if you have screen estate for it, just leave
yourself on the channel for ages and eventually someone will
reply. 

Telsa (sitting there now, and it's been silent for about half
an hour)