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

[Samuel Greenfeld]

Given we are mixed, I am going to wait until the in-person meeting =20
before formally nudging about getting the channel reset.

Ruben (grumpydog) gave me at least some level of operator status on =20
the channel since I knew him somewhat, although not high enough to =20
grant anyone else anything.

If we do intend to use the channel, we should try to actually monitor =20
and/or advertise it, although it wouldn't be a full-blown #linuxhelp =20
or similar.  Otherwise, no one will be there, and either we should let =20
it fizzle, or consider it as something else where idling is OK (a =20
local social channel, etc.).

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SJG


Quoting Terry Richards <sn00per1@bellsouth.net>:

> Nick Simicich wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 09:21, Adam Glass wrote:
>>
>>> If nobody from our group is using the channel, it seems a bit of a
>>> waste of energy to do anything at all.  If somebody else wants it and
>>> we deny that without using the channel ourselves, that would make us
>>> look kind of petty, no?
>>>
>>
>> If someone "social engineered" the channel owner out of it, I am of the
>> opinion that they should not be rewarded for that social engineering.
>>
>> Knowing what I know about the channel from reading here, had they just
>> come here and asked, I'd support giving it to them. If they did
>> something less than scrupulous to get the channel registration, I'd say,
>> um, screw them.
> it is all ok, grumpydog  yeilded and gave me ops. he moved to
> #fluxradiostaff. really seems like a reasonable person although there
> is something fishy, he claims he lost the password. the freenode staff
> is on there now, although not very vocal. it would be most helpful for
> folks who care enuff to log on there and just hang out if nothing else.
> seems folks log in then log out when they see no action. grumpydog was
> gone for 14 hours when he finnaly came back to me and when i explained
> what was going on he said it made perfect sence to move his staff to
> another channel and was very happy to yeild the channel back to flux.org
>
> now it is only a matter of the staff at freenode to work out a new passwor=
d
> i changed the topic to Florida Linux Users eXchange. i have already
> fielded one question about an install from my sister in toronto
>
> /|\
>
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