[vtk-developers] IRC boycott?

[Bill Lorensen]

I'm pretty sure that our firewall blocks irc chat protocol.

Bill

At 08:11 AM 4/21/02 +0530, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>hi,
>
>>>>>> "LA" == Lisa S Avila <lisa.avila at kitware.com> writes:
>
>    LA> I would guess that 10am on a Saturday is not the best
>    LA> time. :-) You may want to try a weekday during business hours.
>
>OK, I'll try and fix a convenient time sometime this week.
>
>    LA> Actually, I tried to join in about 10:40 am, (after getting
>    LA> home from my daughter's dance class) but having never used irc
>    LA> before I was unsure what to do. I went to irc.debian.org with
>    LA> my web browser but that put me at some World Trade Center
>    LA> tribute site. There was some link up top, but it didn't lead
>    LA> anywhere...
>
>As Bill said you need to use a chat client to chat.  Charl Botha told
>me that there are tools that let you chat via your browser but I think
>its best if a chat client was used.  Its also relatively easy getting
>and using a chat client.  Here are some simple instructions on how to
>get things working.
>
> (1) Install a chat client.  I hope installing software is not a big
> problem.
>
>    (a) Under GNU/Linux there are many different chat clients to
>    choose from.  Xchat is nice and for now maybe we'll just use that.
>    Most of these chat clients should ship with your Linux CD or if
>    you use Debian can be obtained via apt-get or whatever.  You can
>    also get newer binaries here: http://www.xchat.org/download.html
>
>    (b) If you use Windows visit http://www.xchat.org There are links
>    for a windows exe which is an installer for windows.  I've never
>    installed it so dont know the specifics but I'm sure it should be
>    easy.
>
>    (c) Other platforms: Look at the
>    http://www.xchat.org/download.html page you might find precompiled
>    binaries for your OS.  If there aren't any you can get the xchat
>    sources and compile them.  There is a link on http://www.xchat.org
>    that tells you how to compile.
>
> (2) Once you have installed your chat client you should get familiar
> with chat.  You could  read the following:
>
>    http://irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html
>
>    http://irchelp.org will also have more documentation.
>  
> Xchat also has a help menu that you could explore.
>
> (3) Once you are done with (1) and (2) its time to check it out.
> Just fire up xchat and you will be presented with a server list.
> Select the OpenProjectsNet tree item and expand it.  You should see
> irc.openprojects.net there.  Select it and then click on connect at
> the bottom of the dialog.  You will see a different screen with a
> welcome message of sorts.  Just type '/join #vtk' on that screen
> (without the quotes) and if all went well you should see a new
> notebook tab that says #vtk.  Click on the tab and you will see that
> you are connected to #vtk.  Type any message there and hit enter and
> everyone on the channel at that time (the right panel will show you
> who is online) will see your message.  To leave you either exit the
> client or do a /leave #vtk.
>
>Thats about all there is to it.  More irc commands are available in
>the irc docs that I cited earlier.
>
>Let me know if you need any more information.
>
>prabhu
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