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The following Autreat 2008 sessions will be available for people around the world to attend remotely, via IRC (Internet Relay Chat). A typist in the conference room at Autreat will be logged onto a dedicated Autreat IRC channel, and will type what is being said in the room, into the chat channel. Remote attendees can type comments and questions, which will be read to the live audience by a room monitor. (For some informal discussion events, the typist's screen will be displayed on the room's video projector, so the live audience can read what's going on in the IRC channel directly.)
EDT = North American Eastern Daylight Time (GMT - 4:00) Updates will be posted as additional sessions are confirmed. Check back (remembering to refresh this page in your browser) before and during Autreat for updates. How to log on and attend a session via IRC Online ChatAutreat's dedicated IRC channel is #Autreat on the irc.starlink-irc.org IRC network.Their main webpage is www.starlink-irc.org You can log onto it using just an ordinary web browser (via starlink-irc's web-based client), or via your own IRC client if you have one installed on your computer. Logging on via your web browser:Browse to http://webchat.starlink-irc.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgiThat will bring you to a login screen. Enter a nickname for yourself, leave the Server field as is (irc.starlink-irc.org), and enter #Autreat as the channel; then click on Login. That will bring you into the #Autreat channel window. Text from everyone in the channel (including the person in the conference room at Autreat typing what is being said in the room) will appear in the main part of the window. There is a line at the bottom with your nickname, on which you can type text you want everyone else to see. They'll see your text a line at a time, after you hit "Enter". There is a line at the top, which lets you switch between channel windows. It will have (at minimum) the names of two channel windows: Status and #Autreat. The #Autreat window shows activity in the #Autreat channel; the Status window shows activity from the IRC server that doesn't belong to a specific channel. To switch to a window, click on its name. On the right hand side of the main window, there is a list of nicknames of users logged into the channel. A green "@" sign next to a nickname indicates the user is a channel operator (someone helping to run the channel). There is always a channel operator named "CStar" present. This isn't a human user; it's the starlink-irc network's Channel Service, which automates a number of functions for the channel operators. Below the list of nicknames, there's a little dropdown and a ">>" button. The dropdown contains actions you can perform specific to a user: Query, Whois, and Kick. You first click on a nickname, then pick the action from the little dropdown, then click on ">>" to perform the action. Query sends a private message to the user you've selected, that will only be seen by that user. It will appear in a separate channel window in their IRC client. If someone sends you a private message, you will see their nickname appear on the list of channel windows up top, and clicking on it will show you the private channel window with their message. Text you type back to them on the bottom line in that private channel window will go only to them, not to the whole channel. Whois will show some information about the user whose nickname you've selected, in the Status window. Kick can only be done by channel operators; it kicks the user out of the channel. It's there to permit channel operators to handle disruptive behavior by a channel user; hopefully we won't need it in our sessions. At the far right of the top line which contains the channel window names, are three icons. The "?" icon opens a channel window with a help file that explains the web IRC client's features further; the hammer icon opens a channel window that contains settings for various options like font, color, how much text that scrolls off the screen is preserved, etc. The "X" icon closes the currently open channel window. Closing the Status window logs you out of the web IRC client. Logging on via an installed IRC client:If you have your own IRC client installed on your computer, you can find our channel by logging onto the starlink-irc.org IRC network, and then /joining #Autreat. The default server name and port for starlink-irc.org is irc.starlink-irc.org, port 6667; for a server list and more information about the starlink-irc network, visit http://www.starlink-irc.org, the network's website. |
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