[mapguide-users] Testing PostGIS / OGR - IRC Rocks!

[Martin Morrison]

The chances of getting people like myself to use IRC is pretty slim.  I
simply can not and will not devote time during my day to read/answer
real-time posts.  There are way too many items going on from teaching
classes to meeting with clients to get much out of IRC.  

With the current setup a user can search the archives for a question.
What is going to be done to recreate that functionality?  If it's not
created then be prepared for a constant barrage of the same question
over and over and over and over and over...

Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jason Birch
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 3:21 PM
To: FDO Internals Mail List
Cc: MapGuide Users Mail List
Subject: [mapguide-users] Testing PostGIS / OGR - IRC Rocks!

OK, this is my last message to both lists :)
 
The last couple days have really clarified how effective IRC is for
communicating problems, and iteratively working through to a solution.
Email is far slower and harder to keep in sync.

I would strongly suggest that developers and users in the MapGuide and
FDO communities make use of the IRC channels that we have set up for
this kind of real-time communication.

So, if your corporate firewall allows, please join us on:

FDO:  irc://irc.freenode.net/fdo

MapGuide:  irc://irc.freenode.net/mapguide

Some easy-to-use IRC clients include

 - HydraIRC - Windows-only application
   http://www.hydrairc.com/

 - Colloquy - Mac IRC client
   http://colloquy.info/index.html

 - X-Chat Aqua - Mac IRC client (keyboard-friendly)
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/xchataqua/

 - Chatzilla - Cross-platform plugin for FireFox - 
 
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16?id=16&application=fire
fox

 - X-Chat - Windows / Linux client
   http://www.xchat.org/


There are some useful hints on the Freenode site, including how to
register a username so that you have a fixed identity:

http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#userregistration

Jason
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