[Herts] Moving IRC channel

[David Honour]

Yeah, sounds good, most of the other channels I use are there, so it's
better for me.

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:09:55 +0100
David Precious <davidp at preshweb.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> The Herts LUG IRC channel has been very quiet recently.
> 
> So, firstly, a reminder that we have a channel, #hertslug on EFNet,
> if you need any help getting on IRC give me a shout or try
> www.mibbit.com which is a fairly slick AJAXy web-based IRC client.
> 
> Secondly, when we set up the channel, somebody did suggest that maybe
> it should live on the Freenode[0] network, which is more of a techie 
> network than EFNet, which is a general purpose network.
> 
> I felt that EFNet was a better bet at the time, as it's bigger (and 
> that's where I already hung out :) ).
> 
> However, Freenode is pretty damn big these days (for instance, #perl 
> currently has 595 people in, biggest is #ubuntu with 1398), and is a 
> favourite hangout for open-source types.
> 
> I'm wondering if we should have our channel there, in the hopes that 
> maybe we'll get more people "wander in" and discover our LUG.
> 
> There's already quite a lot of LUGs on there, so we'd be in good
> company.
> 
> What do you all think?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dave P
> 
> [0] http://www.freenode.net/
> 
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> 
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