Hi All, especially GSoC students and aspiring GSoCers, TLDR; Stay connected on IRC forever: https://vijaikumar.in/keeping-your-irccloud-client-always-connected-for-free-82db71b3cff3
As we all know that this is that time of year, when students and mentors work on GSoC projects, it is very important to have a proper channel for communication with the community. This year, we are evaluating different platforms like Zulip, Discord, Gitter, etc. so that students and mentors are able to see the chat history (unlike IRC, where only chats while connected are seen), github sync, and other cool features without premium memberships or shelling out $$$. At the same time, we don't want this to create communication gap, since not everyone are active and are on these new platforms. As a workaround, to stay connected, you may use IRCCloud, which keeps you connected for few hours after you disconnect. To stay connected forever, there is detailed steps at [1]. [1] https://vijaikumar.in/keeping-your-irccloud-client-always-connected-for-free-82db71b3cff3 -- Jackson Isaac
