Habit, mainly. There are many places discussing the two communities, which seem to have been formed on disagreements about how to run the free software mission rather than a difference in opinion about the value of free software: http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/62098
I've (timClicks) registered the #okfn channel in Freenode in case there's any support for the move. On 11 July 2011 21:24, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Great. Is there any reason not to do this? ;-) > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Tim McNamara <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We could move from OFTC to Freenode.net. Then people could be directed to > > http://webchat.freenode.net and OKF wouldn't need to worry > > about maintenance. > > On 11 July 2011 21:07, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:54 AM, William Waites <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > but sadly, IRC seems to be too high a barrier... > >> > >> I think we could address this by setting up a web front end to IRC - > >> so that people don't necessarily have to install an IRC client to join > >> in. > >> > >> We've been meaning to do this for a while! Here are some tickets/stubs: > >> > >> http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/379 > >> http://ideas.okfn.org/ideas/55/ircokfnorg > >> > >> -- > >> Jonathan Gray > >> > >> Community Coordinator > >> The Open Knowledge Foundation > >> http://blog.okfn.org > >> > >> http://twitter.com/jwyg > >> http://identi.ca/jwyg > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> okfn-help mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-help > > > > > > > > -- > Jonathan Gray > > Community Coordinator > The Open Knowledge Foundation > http://blog.okfn.org > > http://twitter.com/jwyg > http://identi.ca/jwyg >
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