[arg_discuss] IRC Chat Today!

[Andrea Phillips]

Here's your quick reminder: The ARG SIG IRC chat is going to happen
today, in about eight and a half hours from my sending this email!

The time is: Sunday August 17, 2008 at 6pm EST (U.S.), 3pm PST, 11pm
BST, 8am Monday morning EST
(Australia). I never got agenda items, but I'm sure we'll think of
something to talk about!

HOW TO GET ON IRC

For those of us who may not be familiar with IRC, you first need to
download a client such as mIRC for Windows (http://www.mirc.org/) or
Colloquy for OSX (http://colloquy.info/downloads.html).

When you have it downloaded and installed, you will need to connect to
a server. Ours is irc.chat-solutions.org. The port you will need is
the default, 6667. Once you have a connection to the server, you need
to join the SIG chat channel, which is #arg_sig  (including the pound
sign, it's important).

You may also use the Unfiction applet here: http://www.unfiction.com/chat/
Just make sure to input #arg_sig into the channel field, plus your name & etc.

If you've never used IRC before and you're a little worried, I'd
encourage you to try it out ahead of time, it won't hurt anything. :)
And feel free to email me if you're having trouble getting everything
all set up.

-- 
Andrea Phillips
http://www.deusexmachinatio.com
Words * Culture * Interaction