IRC

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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 Team leader UTC+2 (CEST)
Kobach Chief Bacon Officer UTC-5 (us/central)
MrBluze Member UTC+10 (AEST)
Landon Member ?
FunPika Member UTC-4 (EDT)


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

Dependencies

  • servers
  • bots

Channels

Official channels

#soylent (general chat, mostly family-friendly)

#staff (anyone welcome to join but only messages from voiced nicks will appear)

#editorial

#dev

#help (irc help)

#sysops

#test (mainly for bot testing)

#wiki

Private establishments (unofficial)

## (kobach)

#derp (Subsentient)

#civ (crutchy, home of IRCiv development)

# (crutchy)

#~ (crutchy)

#sublight (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).

SedBot

Developer(s): FoobarBazbot

lurks in #soylent, ##, etc

s/old/new/
nick: s/old/new/
weatherbot location
<crutchy> weatherbot melbourne australia
 <SedBot> weather for Melbourne Regional Office, VIC, Australia: 1023.50 mbar, 60.4F/15.8C/288.9K
 <SedBot> wind mph / 0kph / 0m/s, 0 degrees

Loggie

Developer(s): xlefay

SoylentMUD

Developer(s): mattie_p

aqu4

Developer(s): Subsentient

lurks in ##, #derp, etc

$sr text # echoes "txet" (reverse of text)
$burrito

...etc


exec

IRC SCRIPT EXECUTIVE

Developer(s): crutchy

See the exec page for details.

~weather location
~cowsay message

WikiRC

Developer(s): FunPika

Outputs the wiki's recent changes into #wiki.