Dan+Aikins


 * IRC Logs - 9/14/10**

The assignment for this entry was to monitor #a11y chat logs for 24 hours and comment on the activity. I was able to watch the logs, and was getting rather disappointed by the large amount of silence. I went to sleep at around 1am with no one having talked in the past 10 or so hours, so I figured the community was mostly international. When I woke up the next morning there was a big conversation which had started at about 5am. In this chat they discussed the virtual hackfest and the implications of this toward a11y. I learned a lot about the application that caribou is replacing, [|GOK], and how out of date it is. There were bug reports originating in 2002 and some others which haven't been touched in over five years. Overall the community seems easy going and willing to help others. I feel like myself and my classmates will fit right in.