Rene Rivera wrote:
We currently have an "unofficial" IRC channel which, in some ways because of GSoC, is becoming more popular. Most times there's a good 1 to 10 ratio of developers to users on the channel. So I'm proposing we make the IRC channel "official".
OK, some of you may be asking: What's more official than posting a link to the channel on the website? It essentially means that some of the Boost developers become channel operators, and possibly that we enforce some rules on the channel, as we do on the lists.
The technical aspect of this is finding an IRC network that we are willing to stick with. As opposed to know where it's either freenode or efnet. After some investigation it seems that freenode <http://freenode.net/> is the best choice for us. They provide the kind of group registration we would want
FWIW, the #boost channel on Freenode has been registered already three years ago. IIUC, there's nothing to be done on Freenode. I can add channel operators as needed. Regards, m