IRC

Contact chat@soylentnews.org if you are interested in working on one of these projects. Also, the IRC Page has information about getting started with IRC, and the IRC vision is worth checking out.

Who we are

IRC Team Main Page
nick	position	timezone
xlefay	Co-team leader	UTC+2 (CEST)
paulej72	Co-team leader	UTC-4 (EDT)
Kobach	Chief Bacon Officer	UTC-5 (us/central)
Landon	Member	?
FunPika	Member	UTC-4 (EDT)
juggs	Member	UTC+1 (BST)

Current Projects

Chat bot (Python)

• ELIZA module that uses Futurama personalities (to match the bot's current nick)
• Modify bot logging to match existing formats (mIRC preferably)

Services (C)

• Single sign on against the website (coordinate with NCommander)
• Get the web IRC to use the website's sessions to sign in

Documentation

• Quick-Start/How-to guide for staff members (.op .topic nickserv commands etc.)

Misc bots

• Anyone wanting to join existing bot development projects should contact the developer(s) noted below.

IRC Games

• NerdRPG

Dependencies

• servers
• bots

Channels

Official channels

Channel	Description	Maintained by
#soylent	General chat/lobby, mostly family-friendly	All SoylentNews Staff
#staff	Public Staff channel - Everyone's welcome to join, but messages from non-voiced are only send to the ops in the channel	All SoylentNews Staff.
#editorial	The home of the SoylentNews editors, here you can volunteer for duty, report typo's & ask for submission tips and the like.	Editors & IRC Staff.
#dev	The home of and for developers that help develop our fork of SlashCode.	Development team & IRC staff.
#help	This is the IRC help channel, where IRC operators and others provide help and answer any questions related to IRC you may have.	IRC Staff.
#sysops	This is the Sysops homefront, where most of the magic happens. We maintain the servers and services.	Sysops & IRC Staff.
#wiki	This is the Wiki's channel, nothing much happens here except for a bot reporting our every edit on the wiki!	IRC Staff.
#irpg	This is our "nerdRPG"'s (our fork of idleRPG) channel, feel free to idle along!	IRC Staff.
#test	Main testing chambers, feel free to test anything in here (just be friendly & be considerative)	IRC Staff.

Private establishments (unofficial)

Channel	Description	Maintained by
##	This is a channel which isn't family safe. It's mostly about bacon and stuff'	team-bacon (kobach, xlefay)
#	the batcave; bot testing/borking, random chaos, exec's home	crutchy, xlefay
#derp	aqu4bot's origin and the portal to Universe 2. Bring own peanut butter.	Subsentient
#sublight	Sublight's bot home ground	xlefay

Bots

There are a few bots lurking in the Soylent IRC channels besides the services mentioned above.
Anyone wishing to develop bots should use #test for testing.
Please avoid flooding in private establishments and official channels (except #test).

Nick	Channel(s)	Trigger(s)	Developer(s)/host(s)	Source	Tasks	Usage/notes
aqu4	# ## #Soylent #derp #test	$, aqu4:	Subsentient	http://github.com/Subsentient/aqu4bot	Memos ($sticky) Messaging ($tell) Logging/user tracking Channel control (in #derp)	$sr $seen $tell $help $burrito
Bender	#Soylent ## #	!			karma todo	coffee++ !whoup !todo stuff
ciri	#		arti			!decide yes no maybe sometimes "could be" "won't be" "light it on fire"
exec	#	~	crutchy	https://github.com/crutchy-/exec-irc-bot		~weather ~define ~time
Loggie	#Soylent		xlefay		logging to logs.sylnt.us	/invite Loggie
monopoly	# #Soylent	/ (//)	chromas		link title output
NerdRPG	#irpg				Outputs game data
Regurgitator	#rss-bot	!rss	juggs	Eggdrop v1.8.0+fixbotnetloop http://www.egghelp.org/files.htm rss-synd v0.6 plugin https://github.com/eggtcl/rss-synd	Outputs various rss / atom feeds.	Use the !rss command to see a list of all configured feeds, then use the ! commands from the list to request a particular feed's history. Or just idle in the #rss-bot channel to see all feed outputs as they are picked up.
SedBot			FoobarBazbot	https://github.com/FoobarBazbot/sedbot	message correction	s/old/new/ nick: s/old/new/
SoylentMUD			mattie_p
sublight			xlefay
tama	#		arti
WikiRC	#wiki		FunPika		wiki changes feed

Bot projects / task ideas

• IRCiv is currently under development for the exec bot and is intended to be a civilization-like building game played on IRC.
• a Soylent PBC board meeting assistant script is currently under development for the exec bot, intended for minute taking and publishing on the wiki. See IRC:exec#Meeting_assistant for more details.
• an IRC voting system. refer to IRC:exec#Proposed_IRC_voting_system for details.

Information for Sysops / IRC admins

Server Related Info

Carbon

Information for IRC Operators

Useful Links

• Charybdis IRC Ops Guide
• Atheme Services Help Pages