OK, so the plan is still to have an online NCN chat this coming Sunday,
October 8th.
It will be at 9AM in the morning, my time in Los Angeles, which is U.S.
Pacific Daylight Time, (7 hours from Greenwich). You will have to figure
out for yourself what time it is where you are.
This informal meeting will happen over the Internet Relay Chat network.
I am no expert on IRC, so my instructions are a bit sketchy.
Most Internet services will have a way of getting to IRC. If you are
dialing up to a UNIX host account you would usually be able to type 'irc'
from the prompt.
If you have a SLIP or PPP connection you can download and run a client
program on your computer that makes it easier to deal with. Or, you can
Telnet to a server that is running IRC.
>From Compuserve you would have to run Telnet from the Internet section to
connect to an IRC server. A list is at the bottom.
There is a good Internet Relay Chat FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) at:
Once you are running an IRC program you need to tell it what channel you
want to join. From a UNIX IRC program with a command line you would type:
/join #ncn tolerance
All commands start with a /. The name of our channel will be #ncn and
'tolerance' is the password.
Other useful commands are:
/help to get a list of available commands
/signoff or /exit to get off again.
A graphical IRC program will work differently and will probably make it
easier for you.
If you need to configure your IRC program for a server to connect to, these
are some available servers you can use. Pick one relatively close to you.
USA:
irc.bu.edu
irc.colorado.edu
irc.uiuc.edu
Canada:
irc.mcgill.ca
Europe:
irc.funet.fi
cismhp.univ-lyon1.fr
irc.ethz.ch
irc.nada.kth.se
sokrates.informatik.uni-kl.de
bim.itc.univie.ac.at
Australia:
jello.qabc.uq.oz.au
Japan:
endo.wide.ad.jp
If you don't have access to an IRC program, but you have access to Telnet,
you can log in with Telnet to an available IRC server. For example:
sci.dixie.edu 6677
sci.dixie.edu 7766
wildcat.ecn.uoknor.edu 6677
wildcat.ecn.uoknor.edu 7766
>From what I just learned, there is also an IRC network called Undernet. I
don't quite understand it, but I think that you wouldn't get the same
channels by connecting with an Undernet server. So, make sure it is a
regular IRC server.
Once you are connected you will be able to type whatever you want to say,
and the rest of us who are connected to the same channel will be able to
see it. And we can then have a discussion.
Be aware that there is a bit of a delay and different people might be
answering or commenting on different things. That might be a little
disorienting at first, but you will get used to it.
It would be a good idea to become familiar with irc before Sunday. You can
log on and connect to any of the many ongoing channels. For example, you
can join #newbie, which is for people who are new at IRC and trying to find
out how it works.
To keep our meeting as smooth as possible, let's keep fairly focused on one
thing at a time.
I will act as moderator. That means, I might put forth a few things to talk
about, and coordinate the discussion, as necessary.
The theme of this first NCN chat will be: "How to get there from here".
It seems to work best to keep a group chat fairly short and focused, so
let's keep it to a length of 1 hour.
I will try to keep a transcript of the session, so that any of you who
aren't able to attend can look at it afterwards.
See you all there.
- Flemming
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