Support: Add Channel Descriptions to Discord

[GoluffyxD]

Description

Addition of Channel Descriptions on Discord can be useful.
Suggested by @Vyvy-vi .

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[github-actions[bot]]

It's great having you contribute to this project

Feel free to raise an Issue! Welcome to the community :nerd_face:

If you would like to continue contributing to open source and would like to do it with an awesome inclusive community, you should join our Discord chat and our GitHub Organisation - we help and encourage each other to contribute to open source little and often 🤓 . Any questions let us know.

[Vyvy-vi]

hmm this seems to be a needed thing
Imho, people(including me) are often confused which message should go where

[nhcarrigan]

To be completely honest, I also feel that the channels could be consolidated. There are currently a lot, and many of them are silent.

[BOLT04]

This is a good idea @GoluffyxD and @Vyvy-vi 👍.
I've seen some Discord servers having a readme channel or something similar to explain rules and other stuff:

Maybe we could do the same and put the channel descriptions there. Or do you suggest putting it on the support repo's README?

[Vyvy-vi]

(why not both?)
Sync the repo readme, with the discord server channel using eddiebot.
(messages are added in some format in the repo README, and when run, eddiebot reads file data, to check if new entry exists and posts a message in the readme channel)

[BOLT04]

yes we could have it on both places @Vyvy-vi, but maybe that would be a more complex solution.
For now, I think we can simplify this and just ask @eddiejaoude to add a channel that has channel descriptions and other important information when joining the Discord server.

@EddieJaoudeCommunity/coreteam what does everyone think?

[Vyvy-vi]

Here's a sort of template regarding the descriptions(might make eddie's work easier 🤓 ):
(from my perspective)

**Welcome to the EddieJaoudeCommunity Discord server!**

We believe Open Source is for everyone, yes you!
OPEN SOURCE is NOT about code, it is about people and collaboration
We are invested in getting you those green squares 🟩  on GitHub! Contributing to Open Source Software (OSS) is a great way for you to learn, work with different people and also network. 

#### Please try to adhere by our Code Of Coduct(COC):
We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our
community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body
size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender
identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status,
nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity
and orientation.
We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming,
diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.
The following are the guidelines regarding chat on the discord server:
- Using welcoming and inclusive language
- Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
- Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
- Focusing on what is best for the community
- Showing empathy towards other community members
Full details on- https://github.com/EddieJaoudeCommunity/support/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

#### Enforcement:
Instances of abusive, harassing or otherwise, unacceptable behaviour may be reported by contacting the project team at [email protected]. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The project team is obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident. Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted separately.

EddieBotDev(or EddieBot), would be monitoring language used on the discord server, to ensure inclusive and welcoming language in the discord server. EddieBot suggests alternatives and it would be a good practice to edit your message, reflecting the suggestion. (NOTE- eddiebot is still in development, and there might be a few words flagged by it, would should not have been flagged- open an issue on the repo and get a 🟩  🥳 )

**Information Regarding Channels:**
TEXT CHANNELS: These consist of the server's main text channels, that are for discourse regarding topics that aren't very tech-specific, and aren't off-topic

-> #general: main text chat
-> #introductions: Channel for giving introductions, and familiarising with the community
-> #standup: 100 days of code, give us your standup updates! What you did yesterday, what you plan to do today and any blockers?
-> #opensource: discussing interesting opensource news and information, that may or may not be related to EddieJaoudeCommunity
-> #hackathons: the prime area to get notified about upcoming hackathons, and discussing about them
-> #help: A channel to find help or provide help to the members of the community
-> #resources: This channel acts as a reservoir for the vast amounts of resources, that can and will be referred in the community, regarding diverse topics
-> #remote-working: discussion regarding working remotely
-> #ideas: Got an idea/suggestion for the community? We love hearing new ideas 🤓 
-> #soft-skills: Channel to soft-skills, practices members follow
-> #organisation: Discussion regarding the github-org
-> #careers: Channel to get career advice from the members of the community and from experts in the field
-> #first-timers: Channel where 🟩  opportunities are provided for first-timers
-> #content-share: Place to share web content
-> #virtual-events: Get notified about events being hosted in the opensourcecommunity
-> #bot-chat: Channel to discuss bots, esp. regarding development of EddieBot
-> #git: Channel for discussing git, asking git help


TECH: Channels regarding specific areas and languages
-> #cloud, #python, #linux, #javascript, #typescript, #devops, #tech-other, #php, #java, #go, #svelte, #c-langs.


CHILLING: Channels to geek out in, mostly about off-topic stuff

-> #moaning: the rant/venting channel
-> #chatting: Channel to geek out about off-topic content
-> #healthfitness: Channel to discuss health and fitness(not very active ngl 😂 )
-> #random: Content that is off-topic and without relevance to topic

[BOLT04]

@Vyvy-vi that is a very good start 👍. If @eddiejaoude agrees to create that readme channel or something else, we could make an announcement on the announcements channel saying this was created for this purpose...but the bot picks up and announces it on the general channel already 😅

[eddiejaoude]

Oh nice, great team work 💪

So many good ideas, let me get started on those 🤓

Actions:

• Readonly channel called README with the info from @Vyvy-vi
• I think we should add the text to the support repo so people can make PRs to it and I can copy and paste it into the channel

Did I miss anything? We could automate it with EddieBot in the future, a new issue could be created for this

[eddiejaoude]

It should be readonly

[eddiejaoude]

I updated the text slightly, if would like to can create a PR with a file discord-readme.md in this repo with the text from the #readme channel, we can use that as a starting point and make changes from there 🤓

Then I think we can close this issue afterwards?