Difference between revisions of "IRC"

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IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is the backchannel behind London Hackspace. Many members are constantly connected and chatting there, and we have bots which automatically keep the channel informed of comings and goings in the space. If you have a quick question, or you need to get in touch with someone quickly, IRC is the way to do it.

Our main IRC channel is #london-hack-space on the Freenode network. Please familiarise yourself with our Code of Conduct before joining.

How to connect to IRC

If you're unfamiliar with IRC, your best bet is to start with Freenode's web chat. Once you're up and running with that, you can explore other IRC clients.

Channel Rules

All paying members get ops in the channel.
The channel can sometimes be not safe for work.
Logging is permitted, but please don't publish any logs.
If you pester/abuse the bots, you will get kicked.

Channel Bots

There are a couple of utility bots in the channel.

Robonaut is an instance of Irccat running on Babbage. All paying members can add commands to him. Code for these is uploaded to Github.

Statistics

For the perverse, see http://twigman.com/lhs.html or channel activity graphs

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-IRC is the backchannel behind the hackspace, people are constantly connected and chatting there.
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+IRC ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat Internet Relay Chat]) is the backchannel behind London Hackspace. Many members are constantly connected and chatting there, and we have bots which automatically keep the channel informed of comings and goings in the space. If you have a quick question, or you need to get in touch with someone quickly, IRC is the way to do it.
-It's one of the best ways to get quickly acquainted with the regular crew, and lemonparty.
+Our main IRC channel is '''#london-hack-space''' on the '''Freenode''' network. Please familiarise yourself with our [[Code of Conduct]] before joining.
-== Connecting to the IRC Channel ==
+== How to connect to IRC ==
-* Use the [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=london-hack-space webchat client that runs in your browser].
+If you're unfamiliar with IRC, your best bet is to start with [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=london-hack-space Freenode's web chat]. Once you're up and running with that, you can explore other IRC clients.
-* '''Or''' point your IRC client at [irc://irc.freenode.net/london-hack-space #london-hack-space on irc.freenode.net].
-If you've not used IRC before there are many tutorials out there for you. [http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Started-with-IRC-(Internet-Relay-Chat)] [http://www.mirc.com/install.html] [http://wiki.bf2s.com/site/getting-started-with-irc] [http://home.epix.net/~ircadmin/started.html]
-If you're unsure of IRC etiquette, [http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/6176918750/survival-guide-irc this guide might be worth a glance].  More irritable users tend to get annoyed at [http://sackheads.org/~bnaylor/spew/away_msgs.html away messages], so you may want to find out how to turn this off.
-A good option for members is to set up a screen session on babbage to run Irssi so that you don't miss anything (unless someone [[Faceplant|faceplants]] and restarts babbage). [http://quadpoint.org/articles/irssi] is a good guide to using screen and Irssi.
 == Channel Rules ==
-* '''All paying members get ops in the channel.'''
+* All paying members get ops in the channel.
-* The channel is generally [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_safe_for_work NSFW], just so you know.
+* The channel can sometimes be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_safe_for_work not safe for work].
 * Logging is permitted, but please don't publish any logs.
-* If you ask for credit card numbers, you will get kicked.
-* If you ask for SMTP servers, you will get kicked.
-* If you ask HOW TO HAX, you will get kicked.
 * If you pester/abuse the bots, you will get kicked.
-* In fact, you're going to have to work very hard to stay alive, Nick.
 == Channel Bots ==
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 * '''Robonaut''' is an instance of [[Irccat]] running on [[System_naming | Babbage]]. All paying members can add commands to him. Code for these is uploaded to [http://github.com/londonhackspace/irccat-commands Github].
-* '''Earlbot''' is an instance of [http://github.com/evilstreak/earlbot earlbot] running somewhere in the intertubes. He lets you know what's hidden behind links, and if they're OLDE.
 == Statistics ==