[seek] IRC information

[Matt Jones]

For those of you who are or will be participating in SEEK, I wanted to 
let you know that we have a IRC chat server in use for seek and other 
informatics related discussions.  We've found this to be incredibly 
useful in other distributed development projects.  I've included the 
connection information below, and listed a few possible clients.  We 
generally discuss seek issues in the channel "#seek", but anyone can 
create a new discussion channel as needed.  See you there,

Matt

IRC Server: irc.ecoinformatics.org
       Port: 6667
Security restrictions: Only hosts from NCEAS, SDSC, LTER, some subnets 
in KU, and selected other hosts can connect due to security 
restrictions.  To have your host added to the list of those that can 
connect, send an email to me -- it only takes a minute.  We hope to lift 
this restriction soon, but for now that's how it is.

Once you logon to the server with an IRC client, join the discussion in 
the "#seek" channel (e.g., use the command "/join #seek").  Everybody 
sees whatever you type in a given channel.

Some clients that we've been known to use:

For linux: x-chat (http://www.xchat.org)
For Windows: mIRC (http://www.mirc.org)
              Trillian (http://ceruleanstudios.com/trillian/index.html)
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Matt Jones                                    jones at nceas.ucsb.edu
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/    Fax: 425-920-2439   Ph: 907-789-0496
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)

Interested in ecological informatics? http://www.ecoinformatics.org
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