<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">At the moment the issue with Freenode requires all of us to register before we can speak.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">This impacts new people. It makes their joining as complicated as any other service with registration requirements.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><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><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I don’t know of any other service we could use that doesn’t require some sort of registration.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><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><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We do have a Jabber server, but I don’t know if it has been attacked in the same way.</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 5 Oct 2018, at 07:38, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><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">irc.freenode.net</a> #sugar-meeting (See [2]).<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>Also on the agenda:</div><div><br></div><div>* GSoC travel</div><div>* GCI 2018</div><div>* [your topic here]</div><div><br></div><div>regards.</div><div><br></div><div>-walter</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://webchat.freenode.net/" target="_blank">https://webchat.freenode.net/</a></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_5283919560682301839gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br><font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div><div><font><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div>
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