Re: Project PM Africa Development Program
Subject: Re: Project PM Africa Development Program
From: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>
Date: 10/3/10, 02:07
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
CC: Scott Mintz <scott.w.mintz@gmail.com>

I used IRC back in 1999--

it was not easy to set up on my computer

nobody except me and the guy who convinced me to install it were interested in using it instead of AOL IMs

it seems to me that the proponent of an idea which is characterized as easy enough would be the logical person to execute said idea


On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
I've invited Campbell Vertesi to join us in our weekly meetings (he'll also be involved in Africa project; you may remember his fine contributions to the shared document a few months back). He suggested that we start a private IRC channel and I'd been thinking about that as well; would serve a variety of purposes by virtue of being a permanent spot where contributors can "idle" and make comments or questions to which anyone can respond as they pop in at later points, and might also encourage participation in general. I've just asked him about options for IRC as shown below; I've used it before but don't know much about it and was wondering if either of you might know more.

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From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: Project PM Africa Development Program
To: Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com>


Campbell-

We've been meeting on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 EST. Gchat has been used for no particular reason, although we're fond of a couple of features it has. I've actually been thinking than an IRC channel that's constantly up might work better for our meetings as well as a perpetual manner of communication and collaboration to supplement those meetings as well as our e-mail lists and other mediums. I'll ask a couple of our people about starting one up; I've used IRC before but don't know much about our options in terms of setting up a private channel.


On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:
Hi Barrett - 
I'm interested in all of it. I'd love to just listen in to the thoughts of the Science Journalism committee - those are very impressive minds!  As for the evening Gchat... evening in which timezone?  I'm based in Paris, so evenings ET can be a bit tricky for me.  Not impossible, just tricky.

I'm interested in why you chose Gchat instead of a more open group discussion medium, like IRC.  It would be easy enough to create a private channel... 

Anyway I'm looking forward to the Africa discussion.

Thanks

C    
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Campbell Vertesi
Bass

http://campbell.vertesi.com


On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
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