freenode gnome channel

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On freenode, we have a ##gnome channel that is actually staffed by self interested in volunteers for quite a number of years.  There is no official #gnome channel due to Freenode's policy of needing an official group sponsoring it like the GNOME Foundation.  I would like to propose that we actually create a #gnome channel under GNOME Foundation and either staff it or get people to use the #gnome channel on irc.gnome.org.  ##gnome sees a lot more visitors from my casual observance than #gnome does and this is probably because there is an actual number of people who are in there answering questions.

I have talked to the ##gnome folks and they are totally willing to shut down their channel if a #gnome is created.  I would assume that they will continue to do the excellent support that they've been giving to a large number of users that pop in from #ubuntu and other channels to ask questions.  In the mean time, they have given me +o on their channel so that I can set topics and what not.  It'll probably be good to have Allan, Jason and some others also operator access just so that we can manage the /topic for user days and the like.

In general, it's been good to see people manning the #gnome channels.  I hope we continue.

sri