[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] Meeting Reminder

[Thomas Gilliard]

It is impssible to login to sugar irc on f28 and f29 soas due to these 
registration requrements....


On 10/4/18 3:33 PM, James Cameron 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 <walter.bender at gmail.com 
> <mailto:walter.bender at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> We will be meeting tomorrow (Friday, 5 October) at 20UTC [1] (4PM in 
>> Boston) on irc.freenode.net <http://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
>>
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