[Talk] Quasi-Administrativia: Status of #flux IRC channel on Freenode

[Danny Rathjens]

I think it's kind of silly for flux radio to need another channel, but
I don't think it matters since we all stopped using the channel ages
ago.    It went from about 2 dozen people 3-4 years ago, to just prakash
and myself idling there forever last year, which is when I dropped it
from my autojoin list.

I used it couple months ago to help someone on the list debug a problem
in "real" time, but that type of thing can be done in any temporary
channel.
So I don't think we should bother objecting. ;)

Samuel Greenfeld wrote:
> (This is not an official FLUX email per se; but given the circumstances, 
> I suppose it has to be discussed.)
> 
> 
> Historically, members of FLUX have had an IRC {Internet Relay Chat} 
> channel, #flux, registered on the Freenode IRC network for the past few 
> years.  However, the person with the IRC nickname who first "registered" 
> the #flux IRC channel had not been on IRC for a while, and as a result, 
> registration for their nickname, and hence the #flux IRC channel, was 
> dropped from Freenode's database.
> 
> As a result, a project with a similar name (Fluxradio) now has 
> re-registered the #flux channel on the Freenode IRC network, to match a 
> similar channel they hold on the OFTC IRC network.  However, I am on 
> good terms both with one of the founders of said project, and in general 
> with a few Freenode IRC staff members.
> 
> While yielding the channel might be the polite thing to do (and in 
> general, likely will be the action taken unless we request otherwise), I 
> have been told that the circumstances under which this occurred were a 
> bit awkward.  As a result, it needs to be determined if we (FLUX the 
> Linux Users Group) would like usage of the IRC channel back, and if such 
> a discussion should be held.  Currently, Fluxradio has about as many 
> people in the IRC channel as we did in the past few months (3-6 daily), 
> and has only had the channel for less than a week.
> 
> Alternatively, we always could yield the IRC channel, move to another 
> (##flux, #flux-lug, etc.), or just not have an IRC channel.  Obviously, 
> we should try to be polite.
> 
> But I stated I would pose the question to the Linux Users Group as a 
> whole; so here it is.
> 
> I would appreciate hearing any feedback as to how we want to handle 
> this, put this to a vote, just an email thread, etc.  After we have come 
> to some sort of conclusion, I will simply just pass our group's 
> consensus on.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Samuel Greenfeld
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