Chat Room

[craisis]

Hi, so after a bit of google searching, and forum searching, I seam to have discovered that none of the old chatrooms are used anymore. Is this the case or did I not dig deep enough? And also, is anyone interested in using a chat room again?

[1708xMr.Roboto]

Going along with the chat room idea.. I read some ware on here about Teamspeak, I think that would be a VERY good idea.. We can have some discussions about things. It would be nice.

[craisis]

Originally Posted by 1708xMr.Roboto

Going along with the chat room idea.. I read some ware on here about Teamspeak, I think that would be a VERY good idea.. We can have some discussions about things. It would be nice.

Teamspeak would be interesting, so long as not too many people were in. I like the idea of IRC or something because it allows a faster response than a forum, but not requiring headsets/mics, etc. Plus I can see/respond while I'm at work and I don't think my boss would like it much if I used TS at work. But maybe having a TS server for smaller chats? so and IRC chat for the general topics, but if someone needed some more help a small group could join a TS channel to chat about it when needed?

[Jinx]

I think a chatroom would be a good idea, seeing as how opinions are what i seek in trying to help my team with design... I happen to be a worrier in my team.

[The Pre]

i like the idea of it the only problem i see with it is the moderation of it and kicking out of people who are being inappropriate.


Things to think of
1. who would moderate
2. what are the rules
3. what is to be discussed where
4. accuracy of information given (not all experts will be on at 2-4am like some of us )

[Jinx]

Good point...who would make sure the mechanics of this chat room would go as smooth as it should?

[craisis]

Originally Posted by The Pre

i like the idea of it the only problem i see with it is the moderation of it and kicking out of people who are being inappropriate.


Things to think of
1. who would moderate
2. what are the rules
3. what is to be discussed where
4. accuracy of information given (not all experts will be on at 2-4am like some of us )

That is an issue to address, my instinct would be to have anyone who appears to go above and beyond in the room to moderate. I'm very willing to moderate as much as I can, and I'll offer up the bandwidth and server as well, for anyone who's interested. I think to start we can use one chatroom (#FRC?) and expand from that, adding other later (#FRC-Soft, #FRC-Mech, #FRC-Elec, etc.) I'm also looking into the ability to have an IRC to teamspeak bridge for text chat, but haven't found anything yet.

Rules should be similar to the forum here, basically all boiling down to gracious professionalism. And, just like any information given here, or anywhere else, take what doesn't come from a known reliable source with a grain of salt. The server I'm running has super-ops, ops, half-ops, voices, and I think half-voices, which moderators could use to help keep track of who's a reliable source and who hasn't proven themselves yet.

Any thoughts?

[addictedMax]

Originally Posted by craisis

That is an issue to address, my instinct would be to have anyone who appears to go above and beyond in the room to moderate. I'm very willing to moderate as much as I can, and I'll offer up the bandwidth and server as well, for anyone who's interested. I think to start we can use one chatroom (#FRC?) and expand from that, adding other later (#FRC-Soft, #FRC-Mech, #FRC-Elec, etc.) I'm also looking into the ability to have an IRC to teamspeak bridge for text chat, but haven't found anything yet.

Rules should be similar to the forum here, basically all boiling down to gracious professionalism. And, just like any information given here, or anywhere else, take what doesn't come from a known reliable source with a grain of salt. The server I'm running has super-ops, ops, half-ops, voices, and I think half-voices, which moderators could use to help keep track of who's a reliable source and who hasn't proven themselves yet.

Any thoughts?

#firstrobotics on Freenode normally isn't busy enough to split the rooms for multiple people, but it has the advantage of seasoned OPs and a varied amount of users. Which is also a good thing because the room already has a structure new members can learn instead of creating one as they go.

FalseProphet #Firstrobotics

[taylort]

Originally Posted by jrdude

I keep getting this error

No problem with you at all, just the way you're trying to get there.
This chatroom uses something called IRC (Internet Relay Chat) to access the chatroom. You're best off using a Java client (such as the one located here) to connect to the server. Feel free to PM me if you need any other help getting there!

Originally Posted by nukemknight

I was thinking of using the Quakenet IRC Server, it seems to be a bit more popular. I'll see if we can get rights to #FIRSTrobotics

There's a lot of people (read: 20-30) hanging out in the room on freenode already. I don't really see a need to start a new room; it just fragments the community.

[1708xMr.Roboto]

I actually made a Teamspeak server for us guy's and girls in first.

Server Address - 192.168.1.44

[Nibbles]

Originally Posted by taylort

There's a lot of people (read: 20-30) hanging out in the room on freenode already. I don't really see a need to start a new room; it just fragments the community.

Because the "ops" which you praise are actually horrible at their job (no offense).

<FalseProphet> this is AAA rules I'm a <word prohibited on chiefdelphi> channel

etc...

##FRC is fairly open, anyone can change a topic for news or what not, there are a handful people (including me) able to mute trolls (or ban for join floods), or change channel modes/lock the topic, etc, but none of them stay opped (I find it distracting in a "community" channel).

Regarding TeamSpeak, it has bad operating system support (to it's credit it is getting better), I personally recommend the far superior Mumble.

[Cuog]

The #firstrobotics channel at irc.freenode.net has been going since 2001 or so(I don't remember exactly how long) I remember that I joined in 2005 and its still going strong today, I'd encourage everyone to join it as well as the many more specific first channels related to FRC specifically as well as FTC and FLL.

[Nawaid Ladak]

I know some other forum sites have shoutboxes that seem to work like chat rooms, plus mods have their powers in the box as well

plus, everything is documented in a neat way

[addictedMax]

Originally Posted by Nibbles

Because the "ops" which you praise are actually horrible at their job (no offense).

etc...

##FRC is fairly open, anyone can change a topic for news or what not, there are a handful people (including me) able to mute trolls (or ban for join floods), or change channel modes/lock the topic, etc, but none of them stay opped (I find it distracting in a "community" channel).

Regarding TeamSpeak, it has bad operating system support (to it's credit it is getting better), I personally recommend the far superior Mumble.

(I'm FalseProphet) And we're to why theres a ##FRC and a #Firstrobotics. AAA_Awright (Nibbles) was a backseat opper who kept trying to report the channel for various percieved rule breaks. (Which I think the channel was started before them). The ops finally got fed up with him and he ran off after banwalking a lot. He then created ##FRC.
The Ops are good at their jobs, I said that in ##FRC not #firstrobotics too so ##FRC is where modship is laccking if anywhere (no offense).

[Cuog]

Now that both sides have gotten one say I'd like to make sure you guys don't get started on this again, especially before CD mods have to come clean it up.