Chat Room Setup

From NCEAS Knowledge Base

Contents 1 Web Chat 2 Rooms 3 IRC Clients 3.1 Recommended 3.1.1 Pidgin Room Setup 3.1.2 Xchat Setup 3.2 Additional

Web Chat

NCEAS has dedicated chat rooms for tech support and general computing questions. You can start chatting immediately by visiting our web interface.

Web Interface

http://webchat.nceas.ucsb.edu/?channels=nceas

Rooms

#nceas - main NCEAS channel
#nceas-eco - ecologist room
#nceas-admin - admin/staff room
#kdi - metacat help
#seek
#msi - that other building
#kepler - kepler user and dev channel
#pisco

IRC Clients

We recommend the use of the open source IRC program XChat for Linux, and Colloquy for OS X, and Pidgin for Windows.

Recommended

• Windows: Pidgin
• OS X: Colloquy
• Linux: (your linux distro should already have XChat, if not: http://www.xchat.org/download/ )

Pidgin Room Setup

• Open Pidgen
• Click Add Chat
• in Channel type add the channels, in order you want them to be seen. ie #nceas-commits,#msi,#nceas,#nceas-admin,#sysnotify
• Click Autojoin box

Xchat Setup

Select Xchat then Network List to bring up the list of Networks, then Add and Edit to add the NCEAS server.

Additional

Chatzilla plugin for Firefox:

• Works on all operating systems: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/16/

XChat:

• The XChat download for Windows from xchat.org is shareware, instead use the link above download a free version.
• A list of all windows xchat builds: http://b0at.tx0.org/xchat/

mIRC:

• mIRC is an excellent IRC program for Windows, but is shareware, and cannot legally be used for more than 30 days without being purchased.

There are many other clients available, see Wikipedia for a comprehensive list.