<div dir="ltr">During g1g1 the support-gang (even before it was formalized) answered questions in #olpc-help and many important questions get answered there on a regular basis.<br><br>If there were a few support-ganger's available we would have a great resource for providing documentation and structuring things for the actual kids we're supposed to be supporting.<br>
<br>Personally I am going to use it as a great resource to help me learn written spanish. Hopefully the kids just don't teach me 'My hovercraft is full of eels'.<br><br>/me adds #olpc-ayuda to his freenode script<br>
<br>--S<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Martin Langhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Erik Garrison <<a href="mailto:erik@laptop.org">erik@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> considering implementing<br>
> a helpbot there to explain ways to seek help<br>
<br>
</div>Good idea! Do point them to a mailing list - IRC is an incredibly bad<br>
way to get support. You get no answers, or answers from whomever is<br>
there at the moment, with or without a clue. At any given time, the<br>
person with the knowledge you are after is sleeping or just not in<br>
IRC.<br>
<br>
Only very old tired FAQs have a reliable chance of getting good<br>
consistent replies over IRC. This is specially true in fast-moving<br>
projects.<br>
<br>
On a mailing list, a small group of clued in helpful people can do a<br>
lot of good spending a bit of time each day. Count with me to help on<br>
olpc-sur or similar.<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
<br>
<br>
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m<br>
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- ask interesting questions<br>
- don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first<br>
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