Mark Loeser wrote:
> Lukasz Damentko <rane@g.o> said:
> > 1. I'd like to ask Council to discuss possible reactions to our [...]

> Due to their privacy policy I don't think we'll ever be able to get
> adequate explanations from Freenode staff when our devs are banned.

I think that's a limitation which will also applies to other IRC
networks, therefore we have to live with that limitation or run our own
IRC network. I can't say that I prefer the latter one ... we're a quite
good in running our distribution - but would we be also that good in
running our own IRC network? I guess not ...

> > 2. I want Council to consider moving their meetings somewhere where [...]

> If for some reason a developer was unable to attend a meeting due to
> being klined or the internet being FUBAR'd, I know that I have my IM
> details available in LDAP for that dev to be able to contact me, or they
> could send the entire council an email. I don't think setting up our own
> IRC server is worth the trouble for this small purpose.

+1 on that

> > 3. I want Council to consider creating and using irc.gentoo.org [...]

> I like this idea.

again +1 on that

> spb rose some concerns in the meeting with regards to
> some users thinking that if they came onto irc.gentoo.org and joined #java
> that it would be a Gentoo java channel, but it doesn't seem like
> Freenode considers this to be much of a problem.  For evidence of this:
> http://freenode.net/acknowledgements.shtml
> 
> They thank projects for pointing their domains to them, so I believe
> that the network as a whole shouldn't have a problem with this.  If
> someone thinks I'm misunderstanding what they mean on that page, please
> let me know.

Given the fact that the concern spb raised in the meeting is a
non-problem, at least until Freenode changes its policy in that aspect,
i see no problem with pointing irc.g.o to irc.freenode.net. Plus
irc.g.o. in some way points to Freenode servers already

irc.gentoo.org	canonical name = irc.osuosl.org.

irc.osuosl.org is an A record for 140.211.166.3 and 140.211.166.4 which
are both Freenode boxes.

  Tobias