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Online Communication
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Ways to Communicate in OpenStack
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- Talking in IRC Channels & Meetings
- Wiki Pages
- Etherpads
- Mailing Lists

IRC Channels
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- Project Channels:
    - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/IRC
    - Each project and working group has its own channel
    - The common syntax: #openstack-<name-of-project>

- Meeting Channels:
    - #openstack-meeting, #openstack-meeting-cp, etc.
    - Meetings typically follow an agenda
    - Most projects use the OpenStack wiki to post agendas
    - IRC meetings: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/
    - Others: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings

.. note::
   There are a finite number of meeting channels so that meetings are
   spread around. This is enforced by infra. The #openstack-meeting-cp
   channel is special in that it is dedicated to cross project efforts.

IRC Logs
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- Logs of meetings and channels are archived so that they can be
  referenced later on
- Meeting Logs: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/
- Channel Logs: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/

Exercise 1
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Join the channel of the project(s) you are interested in and find the
logs from the most recent meeting.

Wiki Pages
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- Each project and working group also has its own wiki page
    - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Good source of info about when and in what channel regular meetings are held
- Generally has information about who the PTL and cores are

Exercise 2
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Look up when the next meeting is for the channel you joined and where
the meeting is conducted (#openstack-meeting, #openstack-meeting-3, etc).

Etherpads
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- Common place to have people in a project collaborate on larger projects
  and planning of events
- No master list of etherpads - harder to find what you are looking for
  without having looked at it before or without asking for the URL
- `https://etherpad.openstack.org <https://etherpad.openstack.org>`_

Mailing Lists (ML)
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- More than 40 different ML's
- http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo
- Way for people to communicate to a larger group than those that
  are on IRC
- All emails are archived
- The `Mailing Lists <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists>`_ wiki
  page describes how to subscribe to a list and describes some popular lists

Exercise 3
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Look through the list of mailing lists and subscribe to at least
one list of interest.  Once subscribed, locate the archives
for that ML.