August 2015 - members-discuss

Promote the use of IRC
by Daniel Baeza (Red y Sistemas TVT) 07 Sep '15

07 Sep '15

Hi all, Im wondering what do you guys think about the use of IRC instead of mailing list for some quick discussions, chit chat, etc... RIPE already have a unique IRC server, but I'm sure lot of us could host irc servers and irc services (as nickname registrarion, channels, etc.) The IRC could also be a good way to learn about how RIPE works in all of their WG, and I think is a good way to know better each other, have a really good BCOP communication. I'm relatively new to RIPE and maybe this question was answered before, but I didnt found anything searching for "IRC" or "Chat". For sure, I could host and irc server and/or irc services. I worked with them before. As a note, we could see the posibility to be authenticated on IRC based on our RIPE login. Also, channel logs (for logging history) can be publicly available as html. What do you think? I'm crazy? Regards, --Daniel PD: Very sorry for my english :)

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Re: [members-discuss] Promote the use of IRC
by Daniel Baeza (Red y Sistemas TVT) 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

Hi, The 11/08/2015 a las 13:38, Gunnar Guðvarðarson wrote: > Hey, > > Why not use a public service such as Freenode for such purpose? Ripe already have a single irc server, we can build the network from that. The 11/08/2015 a las 13:42, Varasdy Imre Csaba wrote: >i think this is good idea to have a place for chit-chat, quick >discussion, community based help-channel. >But i'm not sure, if IRC is the best way for this. >(for example, if your client was disconnected/turned off you cannot >track back the conversation) For that I said to have a "bot" to track all public channels (or the ones we want) and save the log to html to have publicly available, so you dont miss the conversations. Regards, --Daniel

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Re: [members-discuss] Promote the use of IRC
by Daniel Baeza (Red y Sistemas TVT) 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

Helli Michael, > Ripe does have a IRC server used for meetings and discussions, but it would be good to have a social channel there for all ripe partners and people working with ripe to connect and discuss in. > > Its on irc.ripe.net. Yes, i know, I try to follow meetings on the IRC. Its a single server with no services (nickname, channel registration, etc). If we can get a good IRC network (with few servers linked to a hub server (the ripe one, for example) and a good services (for not to be supplanted) I think it can work. > I agree though it would be good to have general IRC rooms for those of us wishing to chat instead of using a mailing list. Mailing list should be used for what they are meant, but there are a lot of discussions, chit chat, etc... that can be done in IRC and then embodied (<-- not sure if is the correct word) on the Mailing List as "official". > > Kind regards, Regards,

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