On Oct 17, 2016 16:13, "Justin W. Flory" <jflory7@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/17/2016 12:27 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 17, 2016 9:10 AM, "Ankur Sinha" <sanjay.ankur@gmail.com
>> <mailto:sanjay.ankur@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hiya,
>>>
>>> I see a few subscribers to the list. If you'd like the chat, I'm in the
>>> #fedora-join channel now.
>>>
>>> https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#fedora-join
>>>
>>> If you come around in the channel, just generally, please ping me
>>> (FranciscoD). A lot of us hang out in the channel but we don't monitor
>>> it actively. A ping notifies us :)
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Regards,
>>> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
>>>
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
>>>
>> I'm not monitoring the channel at the moment, but you've given me an
>> idea. zodbot has a pinglists plugin that sends a /notice to users that
>> have opted in.  We could set up a pinglist and cite the command to use
>> it in the topic, like doorbell for the channel.
>>
>> -- Pete
>>
>
> I really like this idea too – and maybe to go a step further, a channel notice like #fedora-mktg where you join and it sends you a message with the topic too. With things like the webchat client, a channel notice sticks out more than the topic since it sends me a direct message with the notice information.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Justin W. Flory
> jflory7@gmail.com
>
>
>
I like this idea too.  I think there's a wiki page or bot help dialog for pinglists, but I don't know how to do channel join messages.  If we're agreed on both, let's do the pinglist first so we can talk about it in the join message.

-- Pete