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| | Sugar has a growing community that is ready to help you. Because users and contributors span the globe, a key element to the project is communication. Mailing lists, forums, blogs, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Jabber, and email provide quick and easy ways to communicate. Also, try our new, '''[http://getsatisfaction.com/sugarlabs community-powered support site]''' and tell us what you you think. | | Sugar has a growing community that is ready to help you. Because users and contributors span the globe, a key element to the project is communication. Mailing lists, forums, blogs, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Jabber, and email provide quick and easy ways to communicate. Also, try our new, '''[http://getsatisfaction.com/sugarlabs community-powered support site]''' and tell us what you you think. |
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| − | ==Mailing Lists==
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| − | See all our mailing lists at '''http://lists.sugarlabs.org'''. After registering your email address with the mailing list, you will receive the discussion posts or digests of the posts made to the list server. Archives are available on each list's info page. They contain the full history of discussions about Sugar since the formation of Sugar Labs. This a link to the '''[http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/ It's an Education Project archive]'''.
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| − | : You may respond to a post in the archive by clicking the author's email address (at the top of the posting) to invoke the mailto: link to the list's address with the post's subject line and message identifiers to place your post properly in the thread.
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| − | See also the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) mailing lists and archives at '''http://lists.laptop.org'''.
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| − | A web-view of mailing lists in a forum-like interface can be found at [http://n2.nabble.com/SugarLabs-f1511649.html Nabble]. Keep in mind that using Nabble has the following limitations: Nabble does not support posting to more than one mailing list at a time (cross-posting) and Nabble does not index all Sugar lists.
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| − | ===General Lists===
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| − | * [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep It's an Education Project] - Our main mailing list for discussions of Education and Sugar. (See a graphic [[Sugar Labs/SOM#It.27s_An_Education_Project_Mailing_List|Self Organising Map]] for an overview of the past weeks' discussions on the list.)
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| − | * [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing Marketing] - Where we discuss marketing and outreach for the Sugar Learning Platform and its parent organization, Sugar Labs.
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| − | * [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel School Server] - A list for discussions on the XS school server ('''X'''O school '''S'''erver).
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| − | * [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/GSoC Summer of Code] - A list to support the Google Summer of Code open source development project.
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| − | * [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath Fourth Grade Math] - A list supporting the development of activities for the [[Math4Team| Math4 Project]].
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| − | * [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel Sugar-devel] - The Sugar developers' email list. (See the graphic [[Sugar Labs/SOM#Sugar_Mailing_List|Self Organising Map]] archive for an overview of past months' discussions.)
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| − | * [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-desarrollo Sugar-desarrollo] - A Spanish language Sugar developers' mailing list.
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| − | * [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-olpc-list Fedora OLPC] - The Fedora development project for OLPC XOs and a Sugar distribution.
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| − | * [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel devel] - The OLPC developers' email list.
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| − | ===Sugar Labs Systems Infrastructure===
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| − | * [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/systems Systems] - A list for those supporting the Sugar Labs systems infrastructure.
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| − | ===Starting a new list===
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| − | The best way to start a new mailing list is to begin a discussion on a current list that's related to the topic. Once the discussion becomes active, ask for a separate list for that topic.
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| − | # A description of the list, its purpose, and why it's needed (being able to say "we've been talking on this other list for a while, and the discussion has grown too big, see these archive links" is helpful)
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| − | # The name/email of the list administrator, and of at least one other moderator (minimum, one admin and one moderator)
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| − | # At least 10 names/email addresses of people who want to be the initial subscribers
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| | [http://planet.laptop.org Planet OLPC] and [http://planet.sugarlabs.org/ Planet Sugar Labs] - These aggregate a number of popular blogs on Sugar and OLPC. Contact mailto:planetmaster@sugarlabs-nospam.org for adding more blogs to this feed. | | [http://planet.laptop.org Planet OLPC] and [http://planet.sugarlabs.org/ Planet Sugar Labs] - These aggregate a number of popular blogs on Sugar and OLPC. Contact mailto:planetmaster@sugarlabs-nospam.org for adding more blogs to this feed. |
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| − | == IRC, Internet Relay Chat ==
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| − | Most Sugar Labs chat takes place on IRC (see [[wikipedia:IRC|Internet Relay Chat]]).
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| − | * You can use a computer-based client to log in to IRC (such as [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4029 Sugar IRC activity], [http://www.pidgin.im/ Pidgin], [[wikipedia:X-Chat|X-Chat]]). This link should work for such clients, irc://irc.freenode.net#sugar.
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| − | * Or, use a browser add-on (like [http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16 ChatZilla] for the FireFox web browser, where the above link will also work).
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| − | * Easiest, might be this web browser-based service provided by qwebirc to [http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=sugar&prompt=1 chat on #sugar now].
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| − | IRC is mainly designed for group communication in discussion 'channels', but allows for personal chat and data transfer as well.
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| − | The Sugar Labs Community uses a series of ''channels'' in the '''<tt>irc.freenode.net</tt>''' network.
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| − | * A web-based chat for freenode.net channels is [http://webchat.freenode.net qwebirc], with nickname: (whatever you like), and channel: #sugar (or whatever other channel you're trying to get into).
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| − | * A web-based chat for other channels is [http://www.mibbit.com Mibbit], with nickname: (whatever you like), server: irc.oftc.net, and channel: #schoolserver (or whatever other channel you're trying to get into). It also includes an in-line '''translation''' service that is helpful when other languages are used. (Connections via mibbit are no longer supported on freenode. You may wish to consider using http://webchat.freenode.net instead. Further information over at http://bit.ly/19JILF.)
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| − | * Some helpful resources are [http://www.mirc.com/irc.html here], and [http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html this tutorial], which also includes basic commands.
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| − | * Learn about IRC etiquette. Try [http://www.ircbeginner.com/ircinfo/etiquette.html here], [http://www.livinginternet.com/r/ru_chatq.htm here], or [http://www.wxwidgets.org/wiki/index.php/IRC_Etiquette here].
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| − | * For IRC under sugar, install the latest '''[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4029 Sugar IRC]''' activity.
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| − | * In Pidgin you can configure IRC and then Add a Chat to your Buddy list. Select the IRC channel from the drop-down menu, and enter the name of the channel. You can set Pidgin to open channels automatically whenever it starts up.
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| − | * In a traditional IRC client, you join a channel with the /join command, for example, enter <code>/join #sugar</code> in the input box.
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| − | * Connect to one of the above channels, and say hello. You will see a list of the handles (on-line names) of the people in the channel, and the conversation will appear in a scrolling window. Type your message in the command entry area, and press return.
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| − | * Instructions for using the meeting log robot are [[OLPC:User:Dogi/meeting | here]].
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| | == Jabber Networks == | | == Jabber Networks == |