Nice work. Just a note to say I’d go twice a month if there were events in Los Angeles! I run a small tech-centric nonprofit and could definitely use this kind of help exactly.
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#22I think IRC does half or more of this. Usually there are channels for specific things with a lot of varied experience and expertise. For instance in the #xml channel on Freenode, some very heavy hitters in the XML world frequent the channel. It also allows you to contribute back for the more basic questions that might get asked. I like the personal contact in the abstract but it suffers from huge latency (have to wai…
And that’s what I love about IRC — if there’s a topic I’m interested in, I can hop into freenode and find a channel focused on it.
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#23A simple but fun design.
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#24I think IRC does half or more of this. Usually there are channels for specific things with a lot of varied experience and expertise. For instance in the #xml channel on Freenode, some very heavy hitters in the XML world frequent the channel. It also allows you to contribute back for the more basic questions that might get asked. I like the personal contact in the abstract but it suffers from huge latency (have to wai…
The target of this service is very much NOT people who would know how to use IRC and know where to go on IRC to ask a question, nor is the type of question which this service is aiming to answer easy to ask over text.
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#25Apparently the CDN (media.licdn.com) used for Nichole Barret's avatar is blocked when tracking protection is enabled. Just FYI, if anyone related to the site reads this.
Great catch. The site was quickly hacked together this weekend and I should've just localized the assets. I'll fix that up.
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#26I'll run one of these in Downtown Denver Colorado!
I'm in Denver and would love to help out.
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#27Will office hours be archived to prevent repeating questions?
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#28Nice work. Just a note to say I’d go twice a month if there were events in Los Angeles! I run a small tech-centric nonprofit and could definitely use this kind of help exactly.
I'm open to mentoring in LA. I don't have a space to offer, though.
If you're interested, please drop us a line at askadevorg at gmail . We're starting in public spaces for the time being (i.e. coffee shops), so no space no problem.
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#29I think IRC does half or more of this. Usually there are channels for specific things with a lot of varied experience and expertise. For instance in the #xml channel on Freenode, some very heavy hitters in the XML world frequent the channel. It also allows you to contribute back for the more basic questions that might get asked. I like the personal contact in the abstract but it suffers from huge latency (have to wai…
The target of this service is very much NOT people who would know how to use IRC and know where to go on IRC to ask a question, nor is the type of question which this service is aiming to answer easy to ask over text.
We used to have college freshmen learn to use IRC by seeing someone else using it and getting a five minute "here's how".
I think the missing part is "seeing someone else using it".
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#30Will office hours be archived to prevent repeating questions?
We don't have plans to archive, no. Our focus is on the relationships; StackOverflow does well with uncovering repeating questions.