FFII-related IRC sessions

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FFII activists are regularly meeting for internet relay chat (IRC) sessions.

Schedule

Most active in evening hours, after 20.00, but sometimes earlier too. Especially on monday evening.

Joining the chat

If you don't know much about IRC: just point your web browser to this web page, change the "nickname" to something friendlier than CGI123, leave the other fields as is and press the "login" button.

If you know something about IRC: Or join the channel #bxl-ffii on irc.freenode.net. URL: irc://freenode/bxl-ffii (Useful if you have your IRC Client integrated with your browser, e.g. if you are using mozilla or firefox and have the Chatzilla extension installed which can be installed with a few clicks.

Mozilla add-ons

Off-topic, but related: If you are using Mozilla or Firefox, there are some other very worthwile extensions:

• "Session Saver" - saves your current Mozilla Windows/Tabs and restores your last set of tabs when you start mozilla, this even works after broswer and hard system crashes.

• More infos: Recommended Mozilla extenstions

Chat-tools

• Chatzilla, an extension for Mozilla Webbrowsers (install is just point and click)

• Cross-Platform

  • irssi -- Perl-based, very extensible

  • Gaim

• mIRC - Shareware for MS Windows

• MacIntosh clients

  • IRCle

  • Colloquy simple, nice and free client for Mac OS X

Staying tuned forever

One elegant way of chatting is to log in using the 'screen' utility of a Unix system and, when you shut down the machine, detaching. This lets you come back to the same session later, as if you had been there all the time.