<html><head></head><body dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="ApplePlainTextBody"><div class="ApplePlainTextBody">I agree with some of the responses here. It did not match my IRC usage.<br><br>Can the survey have something like “I use IRC, but I feel it is unintuitive and would be nice if Slack”<br><br>Thanks,<br>!! Vishwa !!<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On 24-Sep-2020, at 7:15 PM, krtaylor <kurt.r.taylor@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br>On 9/23/20 9:58 PM, Joseph Reynolds wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On 9/23/20 2:48 PM, krtaylor wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hello everyone,<br><br>I am doing a survey. If you DO NOT use IRC, would you start communicating regularly with the community if we used a different messaging platform? Maybe some other reason?<br><br>I am not suggesting anything at the moment, just looking at ways to remove any communication barriers and improve open designs and development.<br><br>If you DO NOT USE IRC regularly, please follow this link for a short survey. It is completely anonymous and will remain open until 12:00pm Central, Monday September 28th.<br></blockquote>Hi Kurt. Thanks for trying to improve communication within the OpenBMC community.<br>I was confused by the survey and did not submit my answers. I use the IRC (per [1]) but sometimes go days without reading, and rarely <br></blockquote><br>Thanks for the question - I could have been more clear about "regular use", and in the survey I do say that a bit better.<br><br>From your description, I would say that you are not a regular user of IRC. That is, you do your work without periodically discussing it in IRC, and are not actively participating in others work and design discussions. Absolutely no judgement here, this is a common situation that we can hopefully address and facilitate for other developers.<br><br>Please feel free to take the survey, the feedback will be very much appreciated.<br><br>Kurt Taylor (krtaylor)<br><br><blockquote type="cite">respond. I find IRC setup confusing, but easy enough to use. And I would prefer to use slack features such as a full conversation history and threaded conversations.<br>- Joseph<br>[1]: https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc#contact<br><blockquote type="cite">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/33BVDR6<br><br>THANKS!<br><br>Kurt Taylor (krtaylor)<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br></div></body></html>