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All,

For those of us not using IRC chats yet, most of the community uses IRC to 
communicate, including most of the meetings (not including the personas 
workgroup). Even though we aren't using IRC chats for meetings, they are 
very helpful for coordinating backup phone numbers or webmeetings or for 
just quickly pinging your colleagues.

To use IRC, you need a client. There are numerous choices out there. I use 
Pidgin and the website http://webchat.freenode.net/. Pidgin is freely 
available tool that you can use for both IRC and and various chat 
services. The UI is pretty intuitive as well.

The other thing you should do is register your nick(name), which assigns 
the ID to you. To do that, you type the command:

/msg NickServ REGISTER <password> <email address>

(make sure you include the slash or you will post the message to a chat 
room).

More details can be found at: https://freenode.net/faq.shtml#registering

Also, you should check with your organization's policies about using a 
tool like this.

Jeff

Jeff Calcaterra
IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack User Experience Design and Research
STG UI Patent Board Chair
email: jacalcat at us.ibm.com
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