IRC

Contact chat@soylentnews.org if you are interested in working on one of these projects. Also, the IRC Page has information about getting started with IRC.

Who we are

IRC Team Main Page
nick	position	timezone
xlefay	Team leader	UTC+2 (CEST)
Kobach	Chief Bacon Officer	UTC-5 (us/central)
MrBluze	Member	UTC+10 (AEST)
Landon	Member	?
FunPika	Member	?

Current Projects

Chat bot (Python)

• ELIZA module that uses Futurama personalities (to match the bot's current nick)
• Modify bot logging to match existing formats (mIRC preferably)

Services (C)

• Single sign on against the website (coordinate with NCommander)
• Get the web IRC to use the website's sessions to sign in

Documentation

• Quick-Start/How-to guide for staff members (.op .topic nickserv commands etc.)

Dependencies

• servers
• bots

Channels

Official channels

#soylent (general chat, mostly family-friendly)

#staff (anyone welcome to join but only messages from voiced users will appear)

#editorial

#dev

#help (irc help)

#sysops

#test (mainly for bot testing)

Private establishments (unofficial)

## (kobach)

#derp (Subsentient)

Bots

There are a few bots lurking in the Soylent IRC channels besides the services mentioned above.

Anyone wishing to develop bots should use #test for testing.

Please avoid flooding in official channels (except #test) and private establishments.

SedBot

Developer(s): FoobarBazbot

lurks in #soylent, ##, etc

s/old/new/

nick: s/old/new/

weatherbot location

aqu4

Developer(s): Subsentient

lurks in ##, #derp, etc

$sr text # echoes "txet" (reverse of text)

$burrito

...etc

weather

Developer(s): crutchy

Source: https://github.com/crutchy-/test/blob/master/weather.php

lurks in #soylent, ## and #test

weather location