Chat

[Ted Boucher]

Originally Posted by Arefin Bari

I am a regular member of the FIRST night chats. we will have them every night from 8 p.m. till 11 p.m during build season (just like ted pointed out before). feel free to join us. we will name the chat room "FIRST build season" . if you dont know anyone who are in those chats every night, feel free to invite yourself in and introduce yourself. (these chats are AIM chatrooms). Any questions or comments, feel free to im me at Mechman108 or email me at arefin.bari@gmail.com

-Arefin.

FIRST chats are a great way to meet new FIRSTers, share ideas, and to have fun. Just IM one of us and we will get you in or invite yourself to "FIRST build season" on AIM.

Edit: WOW... there were alot of people in the chat tonight. I hope this keeps up and improves!

[Brandon Martus]

We used to have one; it's gone now due to lack of use and inability to monitor/moderate it properly. Since then, we've been directing people over to Tigerbolt. They have a web-based client, as well as the ability to log on via mIRC or any other IRC client.

[Wetzel]

If you had searched, you would have found, amoung other things, the same question.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...chat+tigerbolt
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...chat+tigerbolt
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...chat+tigerbolt

Ken, I don't think we need another sticky thread. If anything, it should go in chit-chat. At any rate, Tigerbolt works just fine.

Wetzel

[Roland]

Originally Posted by Wetzel

If you had searched, you would have found, amoung other things, the same question.

(search results for "tigerbolt chat")

Yes, because when I think "chat", the first word that comes to mind is "Tigerbolt".

[Petey]

Originally Posted by Roland

Yes, because when I think "chat", the first word that comes to mind is "Tigerbolt".

Thank you, Roland.

--Petey

[Arefin Bari]

Due to so much lag in the "FIRST build season" chat room, we will be making a new room named "FIRST robotics" starting on the 17th. thanks.

-Arefin.

[Roland]

Originally Posted by Arefin Bari

Due to so much lag in the "FIRST build season" chat room, we will be making a new room named "FIRST robotics" starting on the 17th. thanks.

-Arefin.

The lag was caused by that specific chat room name? Weird.

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by Roland

The lag was caused by that specific chat room name? Weird.

Roland, like i have pointed out before in the chats, this chat has been going on for months and seem to be if we use one name for a while it lags a lot and once we change it, it starts acting fine. dont ask me why, because i have NO clue.

-Arefin.

[sanddrag]

I was wondering if we could get something like a PJIRC install on here that is pointed to the #firstrobotics IRC channel. And we would need a link up in the orange bar and an announcement about the new feature on the portal page. I think if those things happened, we'd get a lot more people chatting. I'm thinking a lot of people just don't know about #firstrobotics. Anyone agree?

[Matt Krass]

There's a pretty big liability, since the client could be used to access non FIRST stuff, and you're relaying it through Delphi's website, I'm not sure how the higher ups would feel about that. I know the Clarkson University IT staff have blocked out IRC entirely in favor of campus security and legal reasons.

[Morgan Gillespie]

Why an IRC chat? I have been to other webpages where there is a built in chat right on the webpage where all members of the forum on that page could post to the chat. It was very useful and worked very well since there were always 3+ knowledgeable members on. Let me see if I can find the webpage.

*Waits in #FIRSTRobotics IRC room anyway...*

[Jay Trzaskos]

For those of us with Firefox, how about Yakalike with a semi-normal start time? If you want to chat get onto CD around 8 o'clock and sign into Yakalike. You don't even need to stay on CD to keep chatting to your fellow FIRSTers. They have a little check box so that you can surf the web while remaining in the CD chat. Pretty simple, only problem being you have to have Firefox if you want to chat.

JT
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[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by Matt Krass

There's a pretty big liability, since the client could be used to access non FIRST stuff, and you're relaying it through Delphi's website, I'm not sure how the higher ups would feel about that. I know the Clarkson University IT staff have blocked out IRC entirely in favor of campus security and legal reasons.

Actually, PJIRC is configurable enough that one can't necessarily join an arbitrary channel or server. As described in the list of options, you could use these options to limit it to a single channel:

authorizedjoinlist=none+#firstrobotics
authorizedleavelist=none
authorizedcommandlist=none+me

Of course, using these exact options may qualify as fascist, but that's a whole different disccussion.

It is also configurable enough to allow you to match the colors, as demonstrated by my installation.

[Robyn Needel]

RCU hosts a chat in TappedIn.com, an educational website which is secure. We "meet" every other Tuesday evening - Pat Chen of SPAM got us set up, so maybe she could do the same for a general CD chat.

Robyn