I put instructions on how to register on Freenode in the wiki (as part of a landing page for every GCI task.) I am assuming people will be able to manage. As for SLOB meetings, the regulars also should be able to manage.
(We've discussed before about using Sugar chat -- dogfooding -- for our meetings. I'd be game.) -walter On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 6:33 PM James Cameron <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org <http://www.sugarlabs.org>
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