[SWLUG] #swlug IRC channel location - reasons to move

[Dave Cridland]

On Mon Aug 15 14:33:02 2005, steve at nexusuk.org wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Dave Cridland wrote:
> 
>> Unfortunately, we're stuck with IRC. So being stuck with IRC, we 
>> might as well make the best we can from it. That, oddly enough, 
>> also seems to be Lilo's driving force, which is why I feel that 
>> Freenode is the best choice.
> 
> We are not "stuck" with IRC really - there are other (open, cross 
> platform) protocols which will do more or less the same job.  E.g. 
> is there any reason why we don't move #swlug to a Jabber conference 
> server although I would suggest running our own server since 
> jabber.org and jabber.org.uk aren't the most stable in my 
> experience).

Ah, yeah, I did raise both XMPP and SILC on the channel, actually. As 
Telsa pointed out, the difficulty with both is that they're not 
always installed by default on a distribution (although with XMPP's 
success, this is changing). New users are more likely to find IRC 
than XMPP conferences.

I wish I had the time to even look into some multiprotocol server 
that could cope with both XMPP and IRC, since I think that would be 
easiest.

Dave.