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MitelForums IRC Channel?
« on: July 16, 2012, 10:04:25 AM »
So, do we have an IRC channel people can go to? Is this something people are interested in?

For the less-savvy Internet user, IRC is Internet Relay Chat or more generally a real-time chat room that would (in this case) be dedicated for Mitel Forum users and Mitel topics where we could communicate and help people with issues in real time.

If people are interested in this, I could probably get it setup, there are IRC channels for all kinds of stuff, finding the hosting and getting it setup shouldn't be a problem.
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Re: MitelForums IRC Channel?
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2012, 10:08:33 AM »
Works for me. OFTC and Freenode are good, open networks.
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Re: MitelForums IRC Channel?
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2012, 10:39:00 AM »
Quote from: Navarre on July 16, 2012, 10:08:33 AM
Works for me. OFTC and Freenode are good, open networks.
I don't think MitelForums discussion would fit the terms for either of these hostings, as they are about free/open source software... right now I am looking at EFnet and sorcery.net, but the later is hosted in the EU and lag times can get rather significant at times (for me at least).

If anyone has a better idea for a free IRC channel hosting service, that is stable and reliable, please let me know and I will look into it.
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Re: MitelForums IRC Channel?
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2012, 11:50:45 AM »
I'm all for an IRC.   This would be new to me.  I've never used one.

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Re: MitelForums IRC Channel?
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2012, 01:41:22 PM »
What are our options for paid IRC services?

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Re: MitelForums IRC Channel?
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2012, 10:01:30 PM »
You don't really pay for an IRC channel, you would pay for IRC server hosting, but I don't think it is really necessary... then again, I don't really know that much about it other than I am involved in several other channels for various things and it really helps a lot.
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Re: MitelForums IRC Channel?
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2012, 11:20:44 AM »
There is a chat module available for this forum maybe just install that and try it out here.
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Re: MitelForums IRC Channel?
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2012, 11:43:51 AM »
I'll check it out.  Won't be able to get to in until this weekend, though.

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Re: MitelForums IRC Channel?
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2012, 12:15:21 PM »
Sounds good, no rush I guess... haven't had it this long so a few more days probably won't matter.
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Re: MitelForums IRC Channel?
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2012, 01:01:59 PM »
Did we ever get anywhere setting this up?
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Re: MitelForums IRC Channel?
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2012, 01:08:05 AM »
No... it is actually on my "to-do" list, but with the way things are right now it might be a couple weeks until I can get it all setup, work has been a killer recently with some really huge projects going on.
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Re: MitelForums IRC Channel?
« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2012, 08:44:49 AM »
Guys, anyone can make a channel, register it with the chanserv, and you're off and running. I'll do this for you if you like, I spend a lot of time on OFTC and Freenode.
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Re: MitelForums IRC Channel?
« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2012, 09:14:36 AM »
I will be honest, I am only vaguely familiar with the administration side of IRC and I have had little free time to investigate it. If someone is more familiar with the registering process, channel bots, chanserv, and keeping a channel from going opless, so if a known user knows a stable, long-term site and is willing to take on this task, with Ralph's OK, I am fine with it.
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Re: MitelForums IRC Channel?
« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2012, 09:17:22 AM »
Works for me.   I don't have time myself to dig into it.

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Re: MitelForums IRC Channel?
« Reply #14 on: December 12, 2012, 09:56:35 AM »
Done.

Connect to irc.oftc.net

/join #mitelforums

Any irc client will do.
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