Propeller Powered Chat - going on now.

Granz

Jeff [OBC] asked me to post that he is having a chat right now. All are welcome.

Details:

Hey guys.. Let's start something new...

I propose a weekly chat night, starting Saturday, 9pm EST on IRC.

Here's the details:

Web client: http://client01.chat.mibbit.com/?channel=
(Newnet is also accessible via standard IRC client: irc.newnet.net/6667)

Use the pulldown menu to select NewNet [webirc]
Enter your Nickname
Enter the #Channel you want to join: #propellerpowered
Push the connect button to join our chat room.

Jeff

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

Chat back in session! Join us for all things Propeller.

Jeff

yeti

Oldbitcollector (Jeff) wrote: »

Chat back in session! Join us for all things Propeller.

irc.freenode.net #propeller exists a long time now and is mainly idle.

So why do wie need an additional irc based propeller chat instead of populating the existing one?

And why is the propellerpowered chat expected not to fall idle after a short hype in the beginning?

Tymkrs

And if anyone wants normal prop chat and evangelism - there's always the tymkrs chat on AfterNet - we've started converting some Arduino folks over to the bright side muahaha.

But kudos to OBC for running a propeller focused chat https://qwebirc.afternet.org/?channels=tymkrs

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

yeti wrote: »

irc.freenode.net #propeller exists a long time now and is mainly idle.

So why do wie need an additional irc based propeller chat instead of populating the existing one?

And why is the propellerpowered chat expected not to fall idle after a short hype in the beginning?

Ouch! Sorry about that. Propellerpowered chat isn't intended as a replacement for anything that is currently running.

There is a small group of us who live reasonably nearby to each other who met at the UPENE shows and as a result have become friends thanks to the Propeller as well as several other common intrests like old electronics, programming, and old computers. Currently we are meeting online in a sort of "mini expo" fashion for a couple hours on Saturday night, as well a doing small regional get togethers about every three months. THIS is what propellerpowered chat is, and certainly that after hosting an established forum for the last two years (First as a subforum at Savage Circuits & Gadget Gangster, then onto it's domain), six years of expos, and then having just survived the first year as a business, I don't think that it's fair criticism to expect us to "fall idle after a short hype."

Again, Propellerpowered chat night wasn't designed to step on toes and I apologize if that has happened. We're a group of friends who thought it was a good idea to shoot the breeze about Propeller (and whatever else we get stuck on) once a week to encourage each other to continue projects, etc. We're just not a closed group and welcome others who want to join us.

Jeff

yeti

Oldbitcollector (Jeff) wrote: »

THIS is what propellerpowered chat is, and certainly that after hosting an established forum for the last two years (First as a subforum at Savage Circuits & Gadget Gangster, then onto it's domain), six years of expos, and then having just survived the first year as a business, I don't think that it's fair criticism to expect us to "fall idle after a short hype."

My questions were not meant to offend...

I do not like to see the community split into too small chunks...

...maybe giving up #propeller on freenode is the right answer. Killing the pointer to it in http://propeller.wikispaces.com/Join+us+on+IRC! would stop it from looking like being THE propeller chat...

...maybe adding a comment that this chat is statically idle and mentioning all the other ones there would be a good thing?

...maybe some of my words looked harsh or something like that because english not being my native tounge. It definitely was not meant to sound that way!