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(Note current #olpc role, and unfortunate current lack of a channel for general discussion and community formation.) |
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* <tt>#olpc-content</tt> — [[content]] related matters |
* <tt>#olpc-content</tt> — [[content]] related matters |
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* <tt>#sugar</tt> — [[Sugar]] related matters |
* <tt>#sugar</tt> — [[Sugar]] related matters |
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Other channels: |
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* <tt>#olpc-es</tt> — [[Spanish]] language channel. Mostly [[OLPC Spanish America]]. |
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* <tt>#olpc-peru</tt> — [[OLPC Peru|Peru]] and [[OLPC Spanish America]] subjects (most likely to be in [[Spanish]]) |
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* <tt>#olpc-brazil</tt> — [[OLPC Brazil|Brazil]] and [[OLPC Spanish America]] |
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* <tt>#olpc-ro</tt> — [[OLPC Romania]] |
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**:re "is it active?", the channel is, at this moment, empty. [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 07:46, 4 June 2007 (EDT) |
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* <tt>#OLPC-Dictionary</tt> — related to the [http://www.omegawiki.org omegawiki.org] children's dictionary for the olpc |
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No longer used? |
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* <tt>#tam_tam</tt> — [[TamTam]] |
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Revision as of 16:36, 4 June 2007
- Wikipedia
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication and data transfers via private message.
- IRC was created by Jarkko "WiZ" Oikarinen in late August 1988 to replace a program called MUT (MultiUser talk) on a BBS called OuluBox in Finland. Oikarinen found inspiration in a chat system known as Bitnet Relay, which operated on the BITNET.
- IRC gained prominence when it was used to report on the Soviet coup attempt of 1991 throughout a media blackout. It was previously used in a similar fashion by Kuwaitis during the Iraqi invasion. Relevant logs are available from ibiblio archive.
- IRC client software is available for virtually every computer operating system.
This article contains content from a Wikipedia article which is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
The OLPC Community uses a series of channels in the irc.freenode.net network:
- #olpc — general contact point for all things olpc
- While a general contact point, it does not currently seem a place for general discussion. Its current primary role seems to be support of the core olpc team, and other use appears brief and discouraged. Understandably - clutter would interfere with that role. There does not currently appear to be a channel for general community formation (aka chatting) and discussion. #olpc-content is sometimes used, but has a much smaller population. This seems a significant problem, but I'm unclear on how to address it. MitchellNCharity 08:15, 4 June 2007 (EDT)
- #olpc-content — content related matters
- #sugar — Sugar related matters
Other channels:
- #olpc-es — Spanish language channel. Mostly OLPC Spanish America.
- #olpc-peru — Peru and OLPC Spanish America subjects (most likely to be in Spanish)
- #olpc-brazil — Brazil and OLPC Spanish America
- #olpc-ro — OLPC Romania
- #OLPC-Dictionary — related to the omegawiki.org children's dictionary for the olpc
No longer used?
- #tam_tam — TamTam