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New IRC Network For Open Source Projects
Anonymous Coward writes "The folks over at Tech Tower IRC have decided to turn their small IRC network into a place for Open Source projects. They have also changed some policies to allow users on their networks to help shape the network, the big one is holding public meetings to discuss the network. Could this be the next freenode? They are also asking for individuals that wish to found general channels, this means that if you are lucky, you can lead the next #linux."
why do you need a next freenode?
why do you need a new irc network? has there really been some open source folks thinking that "oh gosh, i'd like to have an irc channel for this project.. but damn i can't do it on any of the currently online free servers"?
was someone too bored again?
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
perfectly ok. I see no reason to switch.
Is there anything wrong with freenode that requires a second network? Won't this lead to the eventual division of potential useful chatter?
I just don't get it.
I'd prefer everything to remain in Freenode too.
:-D
That said, I snatched up #linux
This seems somehow redundant. What's wrong with freenode that we need another IRC network?
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
Quick, someone steal the "T".
What's wrong with the current freenode?
That said, I snatched up #linux :-D
Oh yeah? Well I have ops on #c++ and #openbsd! beat that!
This has happened before, see the OFTC network. All it does is fragment the community, as I have to be on this network for #openbsd, that network for #mozilla, the other network for #gimp, etc etc etc. I want one network, one signon, and one nick!
I'm kinda amazed that all opensource projects use cluttered and amazingly annoying ircd's.
Like freenodes dancer:
Server There are 9541 victims and 10397 hiding on 24 servers
But if you do lusers again it states:
Server server load is temporarily too heavy, please try again later?
But ircu based networks has no problems with:
Server There are 41787 users and 74748 invisible on 31 servers
Unreal is to me a insane server to use...
I'm just waiting for a "opensource projects network" to use something sane. But then working on ircclients and servers i guess i'm biased, esp since i prefer Undernets ircd.
Until someone does a OpenSource p2p im system that is totally distributed etc etc etc, and ppl actually use it. Then just let programmers use whatever network they feel like using.
There already is freenode. For those who are annoyed by freenode's begging for money, there's OFTC. Gnome people have GIMPnet. What's the use of yet another network?
There's nothing wrong with freenode and even if you would have issues with it, there's always OFTC.
In short, "meh".
do you know how many bazillion small irc networks are out there? this is nothing more than an attempt by a small network try and get more people to actually use it. that's it. end of story.
In essence, IRC is an old protocol, it needs help.
SILC is unicode-only, encrypt-only, allows MIME messages, uses a hybrid topology to be netsplit resistant, etc.
SILC isn't fully p2p as one poster suggested, but it's a lot better than IRC.
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It's easy to complain about "all this begging for money"---but where is it? The nonprofit org that runs freenode has a fundraiser once a year to raise a small salary and some incidentals, but nobody even knows it's going on unless they look at the website or see it on some channel topic.