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<p>It is impssible to login to sugar irc on f28 and f29 soas due to
these registration requrements....</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/4/18 3:33 PM, James Cameron
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<div dir="ltr">At the moment the issue with Freenode requires all
of us to register before we can speak.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">This impacts new people. It makes their joining as
complicated as any other service with registration requirements.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">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.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I don’t know of any other service we could use that
doesn’t require some sort of registration.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">We might set up an IRC server ourselves, but then
we take on the defence problem that Freenode does for us.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">We do have a Jabber server, but I don’t know if it
has been attacked in the same way.</div>
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On 5 Oct 2018, at 07:38, Walter Bender <<a
href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>>
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<div dir="ltr">We will be meeting tomorrow (Friday, 5
October) at 20UTC [1] (4PM in Boston) on <a
href="http://irc.freenode.net/" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">irc.freenode.net</a> #sugar-meeting
(See [2]).<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Also on the agenda:</div>
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<div>* GSoC travel</div>
<div>* GCI 2018</div>
<div>* [your topic here]</div>
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<div>regards.</div>
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<div>-walter</div>
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<div>[1] <a
href="https://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx</a></div>
<div>[2] <a href="https://webchat.freenode.net/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://webchat.freenode.net/</a></div>
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<div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br>
<font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div>
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target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br>
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