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= These links below? =

 [[http://sackheads.org/~bnaylor/spew/away_msgs.html|Really, dont!]] Imagine 600 people doing that. It's not a pretty sight. Changing your nick to user-away is frowned upon. If you use away messages, you may get kicked without warning. Given that you are away, a warning would not help anyway; consider a kick to be a warning since it can be followed by a ban if you don't stop using them. On that same thread, you shouldn't spam the channel with the music you are playing currently. If you want to set away do it silently with "/away Reason" then when someone uses your name they are told you are away and the channel is not disturbed.
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'''Time to ask'''
 The time of day at which you ask will influence who reads the question. People may not be there with the answers, please be patient.
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 We do our best to answer them all but are not omniscient. If you don't get answers immediately, please wait a while before asking again. If no one answers: don't get mad, maybe no one who is around right now knows. You can always try the Forum or Mailing List.  We do our best to answer them all but are not here all the time.
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'''Don't be annoying'''
 Flooding, away messages, repeating, CTCPs and bot abuse are not the only ways you can be annoying. Personal attacks when things don't go as planned, continued misbehaving after you have been advised against, and similar behaviour will be rewarded with a ban.
'''When helping: be helpful'''
 We welcome any help, but we do ask you to stay as helpful as possible. There are heaps of information available on the wiki, the forums, and at other places. Try to familiarize yourself with that information. Telling people to RTFM is not very polite. Please try to avoid outdated, or possibly wrong information.
'''Please don't enable talking scripts'''
 This includes !seen scripts, can you imagine if just five or six people had one enabled against ! and someone called it? That's half a dozen lines of spam which is just not needed. Please "/msg seenserv <nick>" instead.
'''Don't be annoying - REALLY. Don't be an Asshat!'''

Warning /!\ This is a proposed page for the Washington Team. Warning /!\

  • The original page is from OK

IRC Guidelines

Internet Relay Chat is used by our LoCo as a means of real-time communication; often things can be discussed in much greater depth and much faster than through email. IRC is a fairly standard medium in many FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) communities, and as such, there's a wealth of customs associated with it.

Don't worry if you stumble about with your first few forays into IRC. It can take some getting used to.

  • People may not respond immediately, they could be away from their computers, or busy in another window.
  • #ubuntu-us-wa is often quiet for hours at a time, even when people are in the channel. People often leave their IRC client connected when away from the keyboard or busy with other things.
  • Ubuntu channels follow the Ubuntu IRC Guidelines

  • Ubuntu's IRC page

  • Read the channel /topic when you enter a room. Your client should show it automatically, or type "/topic" to see it.

Please review and be familiar with the following information, this is what the operators and the members of the Washington LoCo should abide by in IRC.

Want to talk with members of the Washington LoCo Team right now? Join the IRC channel #ubuntu-us-ca on FreeNode.

Dont have an IRC Client? just click here.

Preamble

Keeping a pleasant atmosphere in #ubuntu-us-wa is important for both new and experienced users in the state of Washington. The users of the channel should do their best to keep the channel friendly so that we can attract users of all kinds from the state.

Please also be aware that some Ubuntu channels are logged, many officially (ours is not) and all of them unofficially by individual users, and the contents of all channels are considered to be in the public domain.

Channel Guidelines

These guidelines do not cover every single aspect of the Ubuntu channels' etiquette. Specific practices are encouraged and discouraged, according to these guidelines' intent as well as to practical channel needs. Recommendations from channel operators, including those stored in the channel bots, should be followed.

The Code of Conduct should always be obeyed

  • This one should not need further explanation, the Code of Conduct forms the basics of the pleasant atmosphere in Ubuntu. Being nice to each other, being cooperative and respecting each other is a must.

Don't flood the channel

  • Flooding the channel disrupts all conversations. Please don't do it. If you want to show large texts, such as errors, use the pastebin

Don't use public away messages

How to ask for help in the channel

Don't repeat your question if it is not answered immediately

  • We do our best to answer them all but are not here all the time.

Language and Subject

  • All the #ubuntu channels are visited by people whose ages vary, and whose tolerances of language and subject choice vary equally as much. Please be considerate of everyone and keep all the #ubuntu channels family friendly. Please be aware that there are limits to behaviour and subjects. When using any #ubuntu channel, please avoid the use of swearing and take touchy subject choices such as war, race, religion, politics (unless related to software licensing), gender, sexuality, drugs, questionable legal activities, removing of ones self from the planet are taken to other channels such as #off-topic or ##politics. (Note Freenode Policy when you join those channels.)

Don't be annoying - REALLY. Don't be an Asshat!

Here are several common questions that get asked time and again

  • Common Questions that get asked time and again on IRC, they may save you frustration and time if you check it out.

Disputes

If you disagree with the decision of an operator, then talk to that operator about it in a polite manner. Cursing and swearing will not help, so please don't do that. If talking to the operator personally does not give you a solution you like, you are more than welcome to join the operators channel.

To get a list of current ops for the LoCo's channel use this command in your IRC Client "/msg chanserv access #ubuntu-us-ca list"

Joining IRC

  • Check out the Ubuntu help page on Internet Relay Chat. It should clear up most issues you have.

  • You can find us on channel #ubuntu-us-ca on the irc.freenode.net server, port 8001
  • You can use a program such as irssi, XChat, pidgin, ChatZilla,

  • Or go here for a browser-based solution. Pick a nickname and hit connect.

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