Graham Perrin's List: freenode highlights

• Philosophy
• The network exists to provide interactive services to peer-directed project communities
• Peer-directed projects combine open, informal participation with broad licensing and wide dissemination of output.
• Our basic principles are:
• Community members benefit from better access to each other
• Communication and coordination skills are important to community projects
• Friendly interaction is more efficient than flaming
• Project developers are self-driven
• Peer-directed project communities need to grow
• Licensing must be free
• freedom is essential to the health and success of peer-directed projects

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• Channel Guidelines
• The guidelines which follow are designed with the benefit of years of  experience
• Adopting the guidelines will help improve the quality of  your channel
• Everyone is a user, regardless of their privilege level, and each  user has the ability to influence the usability of the channel
• Guidelines:
• Polish your   catalyst   skills.      The catalyst role is key to keeping channel interactions friendly and  efficient.
• Look for the best in people
• Adopting the guidelines will help improve the overall quality of your channel
• Be nice if someone messages you
• The habitual behavior of people on a channel is the most  powerful influence on newbies arriving on the channel
• Avoid emotive speech
• crucial to keeping channel interactions friendly and efficient
• Polish your catalyst skills
• habitual behaviour of people on a channel is the most powerful influence on newbies
• Take critiques to private message
• just be courteous. Request nicely that they change their  behavior
• Be gentle, be courteous, be flexible and be as  patient and helpful as you can
• It's better not to answer a question than to use the  opportunity to emphasize the limitations of the person you're trying to  help
• answered with a URL or by lists of  manual references
• Take criticism to private message
• Request nicely that they change their behaviour
• be courteous
• better not to answer a question than to use the opportunity to emphasise the limitations of the person you are trying to help

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• No one is required to be a catalyst, but the users who perform this role ensure the smooth and efficient functioning of the network.
• Even in cases where cooperation is intended, misunderstandings and personality incompatibilities can result
• Catalysts help prevent and resolve misunderstanding, calm the waters when users have difficulties dealing with each other and provide examples of constructive behavior in environments where such behavior might not otherwise be the norm.
• An effective catalyst is:
• Relaxed
• Catalysts
• Open-minded
• Responsible
• Unobtrusive
• Realistic
• Careful
• Attentive
• Minimalist
• Courteous
• Cooperative
• Someone with an internal locus of control
• A user

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