[Sur] [SLOBS] Meeting Reminder

Walter Bender

2018-10-04 22:36:35 UTC

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

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 donât 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 donât know of any other service we could use that doesnât 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 donât know if it has been attacked in
the same way.
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.
* GSoC travel
* GCI 2018
* [your topic here]
regards.
-walter
[1] https://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx
[2] https://webchat.freenode.net/
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