[TOS] A sample newcomer convo on IRC

[Mel Chua]

I overheard a chat between Karlie Robinson and a student from Japan in 
the #teachingopensource channel and thought it made a fantastic example 
of a good first conversation between a new FOSS contributor and an 
experienced one who happens upon them and tries to get them started.

With Karlie's permission, I'm posting it here, and I've added some 
annotations and notes for both students and mentors (please 
edit/add/comment, either here or directly on the wiki page, if there's 
something you spot about the conversational dynamics that you'd want to 
point out). I thought it might make a good reference/discussion-artifact 
for classes that are introducing their students to IRC for the first 
time, to give them an idea of the sorts of conversations they should 
look for and expect.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mchua/Newcomer_convo

--Mel

PS: I do wish more folks would reflect upon IRC conversations they've 
overheard - they contain a lot of information about the culture of FOSS 
communities that I think many of us experienced FOSS contributors 
frequently take for granted, and actually can no longer spot ourselves 
(because it's "normal" for us).