[okfn-help] How should the OKF talk?

Mon Jul 11 22:58:37 UTC 2011

Habit, mainly. There are many places discussing the two communities, which
seem to have been formed on disagreements about how to run the free software
mission rather than a difference in opinion about the value of free
software: http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/62098

I've (timClicks) registered the #okfn channel in Freenode in case there's
any support for the move.

On 11 July 2011 21:24, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

> Great. Is there any reason not to do this? ;-)
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Tim McNamara <tim.mcnamara at okfn.org>
> wrote:
> > We could move from OFTC to Freenode.net. Then people could be directed to
> > http://webchat.freenode.net and OKF wouldn't need to worry
> > about maintenance.
> > On 11 July 2011 21:07, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:54 AM, William Waites <ww at styx.org> wrote:
> >> > but sadly, IRC seems to be too high a barrier...
> >>
> >> I think we could address this by setting up a web front end to IRC -
> >> so that people don't necessarily have to install an IRC client to join
> >> in.
> >>
> >> We've been meaning to do this for a while! Here are some tickets/stubs:
> >>
> >> http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/379
> >> http://ideas.okfn.org/ideas/55/ircokfnorg
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jonathan Gray
> >>
> >> Community Coordinator
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> >>
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>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://blog.okfn.org
>
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