[governance] Remote participation for IGF 2010: individuals and

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 08-Sep-2010, at 2:32 AM, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone else have a solution/technique they use or suggest to  
> implement this communication?

Yes, IRC (Internet Relay Chat), the oldest but still most widely-used  
Internet chat protocol, and - unlike Skype - an open, non-proprietary  
standard.

The official IGF IRC channel is #igf on the Freenode network (ie. chat.freenode.net 
). 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.

Free IRC clients are available for every computing platform (just  
search Google), and a Web based interface is also available at http://igf-online.net/chat.php 
.

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. 
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