Announcement- ... IRVoice, IRVideo; WWDebian GPL Free SW Videonetcast Conference & Hackfest

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Hereon (hereon1@fastmail.us):

[IRCd setup:]

> Cool.  I hope you're correct.  :)

Well, just to check, I did "apt-get install ircd-hybrid", and it was an
idiot's delight  -- even easier than when I installed hybrid7 from
tarball on $POINTY-HAIR-BLESSED-DISTRO.  You put in the package, then 
customise /etc/ircd-hybrid/ircd.conf to suit, do
"/etc/init.d/ircd-hybrid restart", and you're done.

Anyhow, I ask again:  Did you bother to try?

> That would mean we'll be past the IRTextC stage in no time...

Not so fast.  Where do you plan to operate this ircd?  On dynamic IP in
a cybercafe?  I hope you don't expect that to be automatically
accessible to IRC clients in the outside world.  However, with a modicum
of advance planning, I'm sure you could arrange for someone with a
static IP host to run an ircd for the occasion -- or you could just do
the obvious and run a channel on one of the standard IRC networks.

> ...and can get on to IRVoiceC & IRVideoC.

So, this is the part where I'm still saying "Huh?"  I just re-browsed
your "OK, so THE REAL TOPIC OF THE MEETING" bit, and I still have no
clue what you're talking about.  Can you explain what you have in mind
for this meeting in plain English?  Your bit about "create some great
new technologies & abilities" is syntactically correct, parseable
English text, but it seems difficult to know what it means unless and
until you're willing to be a few orders of magnitude more specific.

Not that I have anything against "Sip coffee, sit with laptops, and talk
Debian with friends", if that's what you really mean.

I hope, by contrast, this isn't going to be yet another one of those 
Stupendous, Important Projects for Other People to Actually Do.

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