Its not necessarily given you can't get a hive going. Typically apartment buildings have roofs.
Bees are very docile and they don't like to sting. I'm going to hang on for a bit for the beebot and see what the bee people think. I copied them. If there is interest then if you want to bee a beeop then lets set up the channel. I have not looked into what bots might be on freenode but that was the server I was thinking of. On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 07:42:53PM -0700, Dafydd Crosby wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
