[wplug] Freenode

[Michael P. O'Connor]

Well for the last few month I been sitting in the chat channel hoping people would come by.  I am hoping that we can revive it.  I know tdr is in there at times, he looking at moving things over to the Libera.Chat.  I would love to see people come back to it and light up the channel again.  While I may no longer be in the 'burgh I still care about wplug.  And I would love to see the channel come alive again, I remember back in the early 2000's when members moved away we did keep in touch there, I would love to see that come back too.

On Thu, 20 May 2021 09:39:17 -0400
Vance Kochenderfer <vance at happylemur.com> wrote:

> "Michael P. O'Connor" <mpop at mikeoconnor.net> wrote:
> > My questions are
> > Will Wplug move the channel there?
> > Does anyone even consider WPLUG channel on IRC a part of the organization of WPLUG anymore?  I know I been lurking there for a few months and no activity has happened.
> > Is there interest in reviving the channel and making it active, either on the old freenode or on the new Libra.chat servers.  
> 
> Yeah, I just happened to hear about the Freenode controversy elsewhere
> yesterday.
> <https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/19/freenode_staff_resigns>
> 
> To be honest, I'm not sure if there's any activity on the #wplug
> Freenode channel these days; it's been probably years since I've popped
> in.  I don't even really recall who had operator status on the channel.
> Of course monkeybot is always there, but rarely has much to say.
> 
> It wouldn't seem to make a lot of sense to me to try setting up a
> channel on another network (whether Libera.Chat or something else like
> OFTC) if it's just going to sit there idle.  I can certainly
> understand if people have problems with the direction Freenode seems
> to be taking (personally it sounds shady to me).  However, I'm not
> currently convinced that there's any great urgency to move off of
> there.  The main concern seems to be potential misuse of personal
> information associated with registered nicknames, and AFAIK it still
> works fine to use Freenode with an unregistered nick (I never
> registered one myself).
> 
> If someone does have an interest in re-activating our IRC presence,
> please do speak up!
> 
> Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
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