TeamIrcSessions
Running IRC Team Events
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Every team can benefit by running regular IRC events. These events provide a vitality for the team, an ability to share information and a means to get to know other team members. To work though, these events need to be properly organised and run, and this guide is here to help you do that.
To run an event you need to do four things:
- Book it
- Advertise it
- Run it
- Document it
Each of these steps is fairly straightforward, and once you have been through it once, it is easily repeatable. It is recommended that you have regular events, but this regularity is dependent on your team - for some teams regular may mean bi-monthly, but some it may mean fortnightly.
Deciding on what kind of session
Before you can hit the four steps to get your meeting arranged, you first need to decide what kind of meeting you want and where it should be help:
Team Meeting - if you want to have a meeting to discuss the direction of the team or a future roadmap, you should hold it in your team's IRC channel or #ubuntu-meeting.
Training Session - to run a tuition session, you will need a volunteer who wants to run the session, and it should take place in #ubuntu-classroom.
IMPORTANT: Whichever channel you decide to hold a meeting in, the meeting should be logged so it can be put online for those who could not attend it.
Step 1: Book it
You need to first decide who will run your session and when it will happen. When deciding on a time try to pick a time and date that is doable for everyone, and remember you are likely to have a worldwide audience. When listing the time [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=31&year=2006&hour=22&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 UTC] is the preferred timezone to reference the time.
Now you need to book the IRC channel:
- For team meetings - if you want to hold your meeting in #ubuntu-meeting see [this page to book it]. Otherwise, hold the meeting in your team IRC channel at a time that does not conflict with any other team events.
For tutorial sessions - tutorial and training sessions should be help in #ubuntu-classroom. To book the room, edit [:Classroom:this wiki page] and add your session at the relevant time and date in the table.
Step 2: Advertise it
Step 3: Run it