Bruce Perens IRC Q&A Tonight

TheLivng1 writes "Bruce Perens will on the NewNet network (irc.newnet.net) Sunday, January 23rd at 6p Pacific/9p Eastern in #astepcloser." Bruce and I have our differences, but he's a good guy and worth meeting. I've never had a conversation with Bruce that I didn't enjoy. I urge anyone who only knows Bruce from his Slashdot posts or by reputation to "tune in" tonight and get better acquainted with him via IRC.

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Re:Why newnet?

[Bruce Perens]

I didn't choose it. I chose to grant the interview. I left the technical details up to the interviewer. I am afraid I am quite ignorant of IRC - I don't generally have time to make much use of it.

Thanks

Bruce

Uh-oh

[Bruce Perens]

Robin says we have our differences. I think his feelings are still hurt over the GPL loophole story - after which I threw him about the worst insult you can throw a limo driver. I said his car was yellow :-) . Gosh, I'm such a hothead sometimes.

Bruce

Wow, this is a bit much. :)

[toastyman]

Hi, I'm Kevin Day, the guy who's kinda running this interview tonight.

I really had no idea this was actually going to make it up on here, so this will definately be a learning experience as how to handle larger crowds. Right now it's 7 hours before the chat starts, and there are already more people here than there were for some tv/movie stars that I've done this with.

I'm gonna post a 'how this is gonna work' to www.astepcloser.com in a few minutes, but briefly:

The channel is moderated during the Q&A. This means nobody can talk who isn't running the show, or Bruce. With hundreds of people here, there's no sensible way of doing this.

To have a question asked, you'll send it to me, or one of the people helping out. (They'll have @'s next to their name).

We'll pick the interesting looking questions, and post them in the channel. Bruce will answer.

The realtime nature of this will allow followup questions to his responses, as well as the hint of unpredictability. (I hope!) :)

You're welcome to hang out before and after the event. We've got one other interview scheduled two weeks from now, with more on their way.

(And yes, please don't flame me that www.astepcloser.com looks a whole awful lot like www.slashdot.org. That's the default SquishDot look that I haven't had the chance to change much yet) :)


We'll definately be exploring the slashdot effect on irc servers tonight. :)

-- Kevin

Re:Wow, this is a bit much. :)

[toastyman]

Ok, I know how poor taste it is to follow up your own post, but... :)

The channel is #astepcloser. If that's full, please use #astepcloser-mirror. (Exact same content, just mirrored to another channel).

Also, irc.newnet.net is a dns roundrobin pointing to all of the servers. In case it picks one that is down or full, and it's not giving you a new one, here's a list:

irc.dragondata.com
|-irc.away.net
|-services2.newnet.net
|-security.dragondata.com
`-hub.dragondata.com
|-irc.rma.edu
|-hub.stinger.org
| |-irc.chelmsford.com
| |-irc.bootsector.org
| |-irc.Neticus.COM
| |-irc.busprod.com
| `-matrix.tlh.fdt.net
| |-irc.kbnet.org
| |-irc.aye.net
| |-irc.qpalzm.com
| |-irc.uplink.net.nz
| |-irc.gravestone.net
| |-irc.cybertrails.com
| |-hub.aohell.org
| | |-irc.keytech.com
| | |-renegade.midv.net
| | |-irc.gry.DE
| | | `-irc.oasis-net.net
| | |-irc.freshworld.de
| | |-irc.aohell.org
| | `-irc.jaxn.com
| `-irc.fsn.net
|-newnet.telia.NO
| |-newnet.grolier.fr
| |-newnet.online.be
| `-irc.kvalito.no
`-hub.eskimo.com
|-services.newnet.net
`-irc.eskimo.com

I promise that if I had known this was going to happen, I would have prepared better. :)

Log

[Townshend]

There will be a log of the whole convorsation at http://people.ce.mediaone.net/t0w nshend/index.htm.