<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">Dear Ginger / Jeremy</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">IRC is OK, but not everyone finds it friendly, for one reason or another. I looked for opensource chat software and found one or two that can be embedded in the IGF website or in a new collaborative portal. </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">One interesting web application that I found is phpfreechat which can be easily integrated into Joomla. There are other possible options.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">I tested it by installing it within my website and this is what it installs well.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">This is a test installation in an available webspace: </font><a href="http://turiya.co.in/ign/">http://turiya.co.in/ign/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>We can have one chat interface such as this with multiple, multilingual rooms + a forum/discussion space, a document editing interface etc... </div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">Sivasubramanian M<br></font><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Ginger Paque <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gpaque@gmail.com">gpaque@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<font face="Verdana">Great resource, thanks Jeremy. I used to use
IRC, but not lately. I will give it another try.<br>
<br>
Shiva, perhaps you would like to take charge of this, as it is a
large, separate project.<br>
<br>
For the moment, if anyone wants to join the Skype remote
moderators' conversation that we already have implemented, please
send me your Skype ID by private email, and I will add you.<br>
<br>
Shiva, we will watch for your suggestions. Thanks so much!!!<br>
<br>
Best, Ginger<br>
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On 9/7/2010 7:00 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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<div><span>On 08-Sep-2010, at
2:32 AM, Ginger Paque <<a href="mailto:gpaque@gmail.com" target="_blank">gpaque@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:</span></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">Does anyone else have a
solution/technique they use or suggest to implement this
communication?<br>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0, 35, 163)">Yes, IRC (Internet Relay Chat), the oldest but still
most widely-used Internet chat protocol, and - unlike Skype -
an open, non-proprietary standard.</span></div>
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</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(0, 35, 163)">The official IGF IRC channel is #igf on the Freenode
network (ie. <a href="http://chat.freenode.net" target="_blank">chat.freenode.net</a>).
Language-specific channels #igf-fr, #igf-es etc. also exist,
and anyone can request the administrator (me) to set up
channels with special features such as moderation. </span></div>
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</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(0, 35, 163)">Free IRC clients are available for every computing
platform (just search Google), and a Web based interface is
also available at <a href="http://igf-online.net/chat.php" target="_blank">http://igf-online.net/chat.php</a>.</span></div>
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</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(0, 35, 163)">This facility has been available since 2007, but there
are usually only a small group of us online. This year I'd
like to see many more, so please join in! You'll find it a
much more pleasant alternative to Skype.<span> </span></span></div>
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