#welcome is not necessary there is already a bot in place that provides a welcome message and displays a command for help for newcomers

#help is not necessary too, Discord has a search capability which could be potentially used from inside a Pharo image but again the question is who is going to do this

#mooc , I am not against this idea but again we had a student yesterday asking for help that is following Mooc , I had no problem providing it and he had not issues with the process of getting his question aswered in #general channel. If he asked at #mooc I would have missed it because I am not going to keep a mind in all channels.��

For general questions I would prefer , even if they are mooc related , to be at #general channel, lets not fragment our discussions for little justification, but for very mooc discusions, like where to find a specific teach or reports of errors in mooc it makes sense to have a mooc channel.

My policy is to point an admin for each channel , channel admis are diffirent than us general admins, we have full power they can only

1)manage message in a specific channel
2) manage webhooks (for example github commits or rss feeds)
3) create instant invites

so if there is one person that is willing to become a mooc admin i will create the channel and add his as admin

On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 5:33 AM Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
Could we have additional channels:��

�� #welcome - which would be the generally advertised invite URL.�� A read-only channel that informs about community rules and summaries available channels etc (maybe including hidden channels and who to ask for invite)

�� #help - To be referenced from in-Image Help Browser. Maybe later have an in-Image chat tool that connects to this channel.�� How cool would it be to have live help from within the IDE?
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�� #mooc - So people can maybe look back through history before asking questions, and also people further along might help others less advanced ==> more participation

cheers -ben