There's lot's of existing IRC servers that could bee put to service. For #yyc-linux we've used Freenode. I don't know if they are tech only, but simply pulling up the listing of servers in Xchat will show a whole lot of possible hosts.
I'm not sure what you're expecting of the bot, exactly. If it's just for giving op status, ChanServ should be perfectly adequate (on Freenode just type "/msg ChanServ help"). I wish I could start a hive, but I'm in an apartment building. I guess that plan will just have to buzz off for a while :-P -Dafydd On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:24 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > <pitch> > > I have opened my big fat mouth about setting up an IRC channel for > beekeepers. > > There is a fairly active group in Calgary. They don't have money but > probably they can pay with honey. Hey! Maybe I'm a poet and I don't know > it. > > > It is not a given that its even worth doing. However if we do set > something up I figure it should be international and bee like #c or > #linuxhelp and bee affiliated with #biology if said channel exists. > > To do this I think we would need an IRC beebot. > > > Since I have never looked into being a channel op or setting up a bot I > thought (rythms! Uggh) that perhaps there is some expertize and maybee some > interest within the CLUG people. > > I'd look to include all geeks, not just CLUGGERS. > > > If so then let me know and I'll pass some names on to the powers that bee. > For now I'll coordinate. > > > Also if anyone wants a hive then we can set you up. If we can get Linux > running in some low tech beekeepers hives then great! > > > one of the projects which can come out of this is actual instrumentation in > the hive which is networked in. If there is interest in this then this > actually might morph into a for pay project or products for sale. Then we > could market this as perhaps the first bee hive in the world running OSS! > > > This might actually bee worthy of a bee tee shirt so if anyone wants to > take a stab at art work if such a project ever exists then I figure we can > print some shirts and this can bee used to support a real sweet project. > > > On a very serious note. I got into this a while back and it is a very high > tech business with big problems. We have people in Edmonton who don't like > flowers and don't want to eat raspberries. Yet apparently Alberta supplies > about 40% of Canada's honey so we Albertans are real sweeties. Any single > linux geek can find the (girl of his dreams)|(guy of her dreams) and say: > Hey honey, I'm a sweetie, wanna come see my hive? Think on it! There are > serious scientific research areas and one might be even tracking bees > because nobody knows really how they do what they do! > > > Oh! We can redefine "honeypot". We can even sell shirts on the net if > they are corney enough! > > </pitch> > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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