[Ambassadors] registering your nick to get into #fedora

[threethirty]

On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 09:54 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: 
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 02:29:13AM +0100, Tristan Santore wrote:
> > On 13/09/10 23:44, Juan M. Rodriguez wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > 2010/9/13 Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero at gmail.com
> > > <mailto:larry.cafiero at gmail.com>>
> > >
> > >     On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:12 PM, threethirty <three at threethirty.us
> > >     <mailto:three at threethirty.us>> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >         <rant>
> > >         We should be actively taking down barriers to joining this
> > >         community not
> > >         erecting them.
> > >         </rant>
> > >
> > >
> > >     And how, exactly, is the painfully simple act of registering an IRC
> > >     nickname, taking all of a grand total of 30 seconds (if you type
> > >     slowly) as described in a prior e-mail, a barrier?
> > >
> > >     Get real, Justin. This is no more a barrier than signing the FAS; in
> > >     fact, it's probably less of one.
> > >
> > >     Further, there's a reason that unregistered nicks do not get into
> > >     #fedora, but I don't know what it is exactly. Does anyone have any
> > >     background on this?
> > >
> > >     Larry Cafiero
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > The reason a lot of channels started the registration barrier is to stop
> > > the number of spambots that suddenly arose on Freenode. Registered spam
> > > bots are easier to mute or ban :)
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if spam is still an issue in Freenode, I haven't seen one
> > > in months.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ing. Juan M. Rodriguez Moreno
> > > Desarrollador de Sistemas Abiertos
> > > Sitio: http://proyectofedora.org/mexico
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > 
> > Also, Freenode's registration process has nothing to do with the Fedora 
> > project, Red Hat or any other FOSS project on freenode. It is up to the 
> > freenode board. Further, I think the registration process keeps a lot of 
> > issues at bay, so as the requirement in the Fedora Project channels, to 
> > be registered.
> > 
> > I have a suggestion to make though. If you believe it is hard for users 
> > to join/register for freenode, why don't you make a few new wiki pages, 
> > with GUI screen shots, to help new users ? IMHO that would be a better 
> > approach to take, we could then link them from the get-help pages.
> 
> The get-help page is here:
>   http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-help
> 
> It actually contains a text paragraph on how to connect to IRC, but
> really that ought to be a link out to a wiki page that people can
> maintain more easily.  That wiki page is probably here:
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRCHowTo
> 
> It could use some updating, and it should stay oriented on a GUI
> program, which tends to be easier for new users.  I like irssi too but
> I wouldn't send a first-timer to it.
> 
> So the steps to fix this issue would be:
> 
> * Update the wiki page
> * Ask the websites team if they'll accept a patch for that section on
>   the get-help page, and why
> * Use the instructions here to send a correction to the websites team:
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_fix_bugs_on_the_Fedora_Project_website
> 
> Justin, interested in working on this?
> 

I can have a go at it.