AVR-Chat

Thomas Keller wrote:
>   I don't know how many of you are familiar with IRC (Internet Relay
> Chat).  I am a heavy IRC user (indeed, 11 years ago I met the woman who
> is now my wife on an IRC channel).   Anyhooo:
> 
> 
>    I am seriously considering starting an IRC channel devoted to AVR use
> and users.  This channel would be on the IRC network known as efNet
> (probably...Thereis one alternative I am considering).  I need to
> download an eggdrop bot source and modify it to support the channel, and
> ind a host for it.  once that is done, channel #avrFreaks will be a
> reality.

If it is possible I would prefer freenode ;) it is more of a tech IRC 
network and I found in the past I had less people crash my rooms looking 
for sex etc.

> 
>   I am looking for feedback on whether you folks would participate in
> such a project.   Realtime chats offer a much richer environment for
> seeking and offering technical assistance than mail lists (not that
> maillists don't serve a useful and essential service, they do).  Also,
> there is, or can be, a deeper social interaction, which creates a
> stronger sense of community, which I think is worthwhile.

If you signed up for yahoo through the web (ie not using the subscribe 
email address) you can access from the yahoo page for this group a chat 
room :)

> 
>    Indeed, I am seriously considering (subject tot he opinions of you,
> the participants, of course) seeking support for the IRC avrFreaks
> project from Atmel.  Perhaps asking them if they would provide the
> hosting for the bot (a bot is a small program that logs into a channel,
> and poses as a user.  It is usually "opped" (designated as a channel
> operator) so that it has control over what is happenigm on channel.  It
> can be programmed to enforce channel ruls, to preotect the channel from
> unpleasant take-over attempts, etc., etc., as well as offering online
> "Information and Referral" services, such as access to lists of hardware
> and software resources, vendors of Atmeal and related components, etc.,
> etc.).  As I envision it, this support would consist solely of providing
> the miniaml storage resources (I cannot believe that the bot and its
> related files would take more than, say, 50 MBytes of storage space) and
> the minimal CPU power for the bot program to be excuting, and, of
> course, a very small quantity of their Internet bandwidth.  All i nall,
> a very small cost to Atmel, for a fairly large return in public
> relations.

If it goes ahead, I can probably host the bot on my server, I have 
dynamic ADSL atm but am about to switch to static (with 8 ip's (not sure 
why but 8 is the smallest my ISP sublets)

> 
>   In any case, I am seekign comments, suggestions, and yes, even flames,
> over this proposal.  Please let me know what you think.  Thanks in
> advance.
> 
> Tom

Regards,

Kat.