On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 05:07 -0400, Chad Bailey wrote: > I thought I'd let you guys know that I do have extensive IRC > administration experience and would be glad to contribute in the IRC > channel in any way that's needed. I also learned programming by > writing bots for irc lol so I'd be glad to get one started for the jax > lug channel if that's something that would be of any interest.
I thought about a but, but not like we have a bugzilla or direct need. Maybe to query google at best, but we could do that on our own. Not sure a bot is necessary. As for having IRC experience if you want to be a channel operator. I do not have a problem with that, and would likely welcome such. There is not much to do now, but as the channel grows, that might change. > I do have experience operating cameras and doing live productions with > video switch boards etc so if that would come in handy at all I'd be > glad to contribute there as well. I don't immediately see how it would > be applicable to the needs of the jax lug though. I don't think there will ever be a video switching board when we go to broadcast/record meetings. If/when that happens. Still some obstacles to overcome and issues to address there. > A final thought is, we don't _have_ to use freenode as an irc server. I agree, but it is one of the most popular, if not the most popular. Gentoo and Ubuntu use it primarily. As well as countless other projects, xen, radeon, tomcat, and many others just to name a few. The other one would be oftc, where Debian and others reside :) > Perhaps one of us could even host an ircd at irc.jaxlug.org. No I doubt that will ever happen. FYI Gentoo used to run some chat servers, and it was to much of a pain to deal with. Rather leave that up to others who deal with the IRC networks already. > I'm not > real crazy about freenode once they lost lilo. Lots of people thought > lilo was a bad person because of his donation spending habits, but I > have never met a better IRC administrator, ever. Pretty sure he passed away no? Can't really fault them for that ;) > He's missed by me for sure, and I think anyone who's been a part of > freenode long enough knows that the way it's ran now is completely > inconsistent with its initial direction. I haven't seen much change in the ~5 or so years I have been on there. Though I can't say I pay much attention to how Freenode operates, just that its there and I can access the channels I need to for work and other purposes. > With regard to what day to have it on, I have a crappy job in the > sense that I have no guarantee of my schedule, so I can not really say > what a good day or time would be for me. The only guaranteed day I > have off is sunday, and I'm not so sure I'd even want to do it on > sunday so no input on that subject. Well there will always be conflicts and not everyone can make it to ever meeting for a variety of reasons. If we get around to recording stuff, that will become less of an issue. Though don't want people using the excuse about watching a recording of the presentation as reason not to attend :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
