Here are instructions to join our virtual meetings.

We will be using IRC (#ttlug) as our main chat room to have meetings from time to time. Virtual meetings eliminate the need to organise a convenient location for obvious reasons.

IRC

1. Log into the irc.freenode.net
2 join channel #ttlug

IRC Clients

1. If you are at your office or stuck behind a firewall, use Mibbit (this is probably the quickest and easiest way to get started)

2. You can also use any of the following IRC clients: mIRC, Pidgin, Chatzilla (firefox extension), Miranda IM, X-Chat

IRC Commands

For those of you who don't know the IRC commands, please read this web page listing a set of common IRC commands

Once you have joined the freenode server (by selecting it form the server list), you can type /join #ttlug

To change you nick name type /nick enter_your_new_nick and hit enter.

Read on below for specific instructions if you are a newbie to IRC.

Joining #ttlug using Miranda IM (windows tutorial)

I got this from a Drupal group posting

After you've downloaded and installed Miranda, on a Windows machine you should see the Miranda logo (a man in a green outfit) in your system tray (bottom right, next to the clock). To get set up on IRC, right-click on the Miranda logo, go to "Main Menu", and then click "Options". In the left-most column, click on Network and then on IRC so that the "Account" tab (among a few other tabs) shows up on the right side. Next, select "FreeNode Random Server" from the "Server name" drop-down menu under the "Account" tab and Miranda should automatically select "irc.freenode.net" for you and insert it into the "Internet address" box for you. Next, type in a name you'd like to use into the "Nick" box (this is the name people will see you as) as well as your name in the "Full name (e-mail)" box. For "User ID (Ident)", I used "Miranda". I left "Alternative nick" blank. Go ahead and click "Apply" and then "OK" to close the "Options" dialog box.

To actually join a chat, right-click on the Miranda logo in your system tray and then click "Hide/Show". The Miranda app should pop up on your screen. Click on the logo (to the left of "Status"), go down to IRC, and click on "Join a channel". Underneath where it says "Join channel", type in #ttlug and then click "OK". This should immediately take you into the chat room and indicate to you the nicknames of users in the chat room via a column on the right hand side.

To connect via mobile phone (instructions taken from the mailing list)
Visit one of these sites:

k-IRC (Mobile IRC Client)

jmIrc - IRC MIDlet for mobile phones

Mibbit iPhone IRC web client

If your phone has a built in web browser, such as with the iPhone and the new N800 phones, you can just go to
The Mibbit website directly and use the web interface.

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