Re: [PD] pd's chatroom is #dataflow on FreeNode IRC

On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 21:54 +0200, tim vets wrote:

2011/9/21 Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca Le 2011-09-21 à 01:26:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :

            pob came up with this idea in #dataflow,

    BTW, it's been a while that I haven't advertised our chat
    room.

    The #dataflow channel is the chat room for PureData. It has
    been running for nearly 9 years under that name. Usually 25-50
    people are logged in (though few are speaking).

    If you are asking questions, make sure you stay for long
    enough so that people have the time to notice what you say.
    Sometimes it can take hours, but it happens that it takes less
    than a minute. DON'T ask whether you can ask a question...
    that's not necessary.

    To connect to the chat room :

     * download an IRC client (for example, XChat) ;

     * select the FreeNode network (irc.freenode.net on port
    6667) ;

     * select the channel #freenode (usually by typing /join
    #dataflow).

I suppose you meant to type "select the channel #dataflow" ? :)

I'm in the #dataflow room a lot too, its a very useful resource. You can also use programs like Pidgin (http://pidgin.im/), Adium (http://www.adium.im/) and Colloquy (http://colloquy.info/) to connect to IRC chat rooms.

On Mac OS X, colloquy is probably the easiest way. Literally just download it, drag it to your /Applications, then run it. Then click this link:

irc://irc.freenode.net/dataflow

hc