It has nothing to do with soas, f28 or f29; you will see the same failure on 
every system. You must register to test.

> On 5 Oct 2018, at 08:40, Thomas Gilliard <satelli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It is impssible to login to sugar irc on f28 and f29 soas due to these 
> registration requrements....
> 
> 
> 
>> On 10/4/18 3:33 PM, James Cameron wrote:
>> At the moment the issue with Freenode requires all of us to register before 
>> we can speak.
>> 
>> This impacts new people.  It makes their joining as complicated as any other 
>> service with registration requirements.
>> 
>> As D. Joe has observed, if we had our people watching, we could notice new 
>> people to let them speak.  We would need to enable this, and somehow cover 
>> the different time zones.  As we don’t have enough coverage now to answer 
>> the simplest questions from the people we have, we would need some 
>> commitment.  That would be the next step in that plan.
>> 
>> I don’t know of any other service we could use that doesn’t require some 
>> sort of registration.
>> 
>> We might set up an IRC server ourselves, but then we take on the defence 
>> problem that Freenode does for us.
>> 
>> We do have a Jabber server, but I don’t know if it has been attacked in the 
>> same way.
>> 
>> On 5 Oct 2018, at 07:38, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> We will be meeting tomorrow (Friday, 5 October) at 20UTC [1] (4PM in 
>>> Boston) on irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting (See [2]).
>>> 
>>> Note that there has been a SPAM issue on Freenode of late (See the email 
>>> from James I have forwarded below). We should discuss potential solutions.
>>> 
>>> Also on the agenda:
>>> 
>>> * GSoC travel
>>> * GCI 2018
>>> * [your topic here]
>>> 
>>> regards.
>>> 
>>> -walter
>>> 
>>> [1] https://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx
>>> [2] https://webchat.freenode.net/
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Walter Bender
>>> Sugar Labs
>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>> 
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