All freenode network channels which include 'wikimedia' in their name are nominally under the Wikimedia Foundation's group contacts. In practice they are 'owned' by volunteers who are given the founder flag. (The group contacts only get involved when a founder disappears and the channel becomes dysfunctional.)

I was involuntarily given the founder flag for #Wikimedia-ca when I mentioned there was no founder for the channel. (Lesson: in an all-volunteer group, don't point out problems lest them become *your* problem.) As a member of Wiki Canada, I guess that means control of the channel has already been given to Wiki Canada.

Amgine

On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 13:20:09 -0400 Alan Walker awalker@wikimedia.ca wrote:

On that subject, who currently owns the Wikimedia-ca channel? Is it possible to have ownership transferred to the chapter?

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Amgine amgine@wikimedians.ca wrote:

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On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 04:45:58 -0700 (PDT) Doc James jmh649@gmail.com wrote:

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An issue I have with IRC is that I am unable to use it at work. The IT department has blocked access. Some of the conferencing options allow connecting via telephone to address the bandwidth problems. Some of them also offer one month free trials so we can see how it would work for us before we commit money.

James

Regarding the limitation of IRC at work; if you can view web pages using javascript, there are IRC gateways which will let you use IRC as a web page. Here is the url for Wikizine.Org's gateway: http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi It does not yet allow access to irc://irc.freenode.net/Wikimedia-ca, but I can ask to have it added.

-- Amgine amgine@wikimedians.ca