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, and the IRC vision is worth checking out.
Who we are
| IRC Team Main Page | ||
|---|---|---|
|
nick |
position |
timezone |
| xlefay | Co-team leader | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| paulej72 | Co-team leader | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| Kobach | Chief Bacon Officer | UTC-5 (us/central) |
| Landon | Member | ? |
| FunPika | Member | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| juggs | Member | UTC+1 (BST) |
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.)
Misc bots
- Anyone wanting to join existing bot development projects should contact the developer(s) noted below.
IRC Games
- NerdRPG
Dependencies
- servers
- bots
Channels
Official channels
| Channel | Description | Maintained by |
|---|---|---|
| #soylent | General chat/lobby, mostly family-friendly | All SoylentNews Staff |
| #staff | Public Staff channel - Everyone's welcome to join, but messages from non-voiced are only send to the ops in the channel | All SoylentNews Staff. |
| #editorial | The home of the SoylentNews editors, here you can volunteer for duty, report typo's & ask for submission tips and the like. | Editors & IRC Staff. |
| #dev | The home of and for developers that help develop our fork of SlashCode. | Development team & IRC staff. |
| #help | This is the IRC help channel, where IRC operators and others provide help and answer any questions related to IRC you may have. | IRC Staff. |
| #sysops | This is the Sysops homefront, where most of the magic happens. We maintain the servers and services. | Sysops & IRC Staff. |
| #wiki | This is the Wiki's channel, nothing much happens here except for a bot reporting our every edit on the wiki! | IRC Staff. |
| #irpg | This is our "nerdRPG"'s (our fork of idleRPG) channel, feel free to idle along! | IRC Staff. |
| #test | Main testing chambers, feel free to test anything in here (just be friendly & be considerative) | IRC Staff. |
Private establishments (unofficial)
| Channel | Description | Maintained by |
|---|---|---|
| ## | This is a channel which isn't family safe. It's mostly about bacon and stuff' | team-bacon (kobach, xlefay) |
| # | the batcave; bot testing/borking, random chaos, exec's home | crutchy, xlefay |
| #derp | aqu4bot's origin and the portal to Universe 2. Bring own peanut butter. | Subsentient |
| #sublight | Sublight's bot home ground | xlefay |
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 private establishments and official channels (except #test).
| Nick | Channel(s) | Trigger(s) | Developer(s)/host(s) | Source | Tasks | Usage/notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aqu4 | # ## #Soylent #derp #test |
$, aqu4: | Subsentient | http://github.com/Subsentient/aqu4bot |
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$sr $seen $tell $help $burrito |
| Bender | #Soylent ## # |
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coffee++ | ||
| ciri | # | arti | !decide yes no maybe sometimes "could be" "won't be" "light it on fire" | |||
| exec | # | ~ | crutchy | https://github.com/crutchy-/exec-irc-bot | ||
| Loggie | #Soylent | xlefay |
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/invite Loggie | ||
| monopoly | # #Soylent |
/ (//) | chromas |
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| NerdRPG | #irpg |
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| Regurgitator | #rss-bot | !rss | juggs |
Eggdrop v1.8.0+fixbotnetloop http://www.egghelp.org/files.htm |
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Use the !rss command to see a list of all configured feeds, then use the ! commands from the list to request a particular feed's history. Or just idle in the #rss-bot channel to see all feed outputs as they are picked up. |
| SedBot | FoobarBazbot | https://github.com/FoobarBazbot/sedbot |
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s/old/new/ nick: s/old/new/ | ||
| SoylentMUD | mattie_p | |||||
| sublight | xlefay | |||||
| tama | # | arti | ||||
| WikiRC | #wiki | FunPika |
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Bot projects / task ideas
- IRCiv is currently under development for the exec bot and is intended to be a civilization-like building game played on IRC.
- a Soylent PBC board meeting assistant script is currently under development for the exec bot, intended for minute taking and publishing on the wiki. See IRC:exec#Meeting_assistant for more details.
- an IRC voting system. refer to IRC:exec#Proposed_IRC_voting_system for details.