[MetaCRS] IRC channel #metacrs

[Mateusz Loskot]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I've taken the liberty to register IRC channel called #metacrs
>> and dedicate it to the MetaCRS project dicsussions.
>>
>> As a registrar, I'm the channel operator, but if anyone would need to 
>> get the control over this channel, please don't hesitate to catch me.
>>
>> MetaCRS Wiki has been updated as well:
>>
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MetaCRS#IRC
>>
>> BTW, in 2006 Markus registered #proj channel for PROJ.4 and
>> I've noticed that it's still up and running:
>>
>> http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/proj/2006-April/002214.html
> 
> Mateusz,
> 
> And I think that the fate of the #proj channel (not enough interest
> to even attract the primary developers) points out why irc channel
> proliferation is a problem.  A channel is only valuable if useful people
> are available there.
> 
> I'd encourage taking PROJ, and other metacrs discussions to the existing
> somewhat related channels like #gdal, #osgeo and so forth.

Frank,

Yes, I understand the problem of proliferation.
It's not a big investment to keep #metacrs but in case the community
grows and #gdal gets flooded with metacrs discussions, then perhaps it
will be good to move to #metacrs, already taken by us :-)

Ciao
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org