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As many of you who use IRC will know, last year the IRC Council introduced a Terms of Service page describing the terms for using many of our IRC channels, specifically the logged channels. And, as many LoCo team channels are also logged, they also have the same terms.
In February we decided it would be [...]

Friday, April 8th, 2011 at 15:59 | 0 comments
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As you may have noticed, we have changed which IRC bots idle in our channels. I thought I’d explain it a little here.
First, some background
ubottu, our core IRC bot, is a Supybot running our custom plugins. The plugin you’ll most likely to have used is called “Encyclopedia”, that’s the one which stores and fetches factoids [...]

Friday, May 21st, 2010 at 09:16 | 0 comments
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As you may know, the IRC Council recently appointed 3 new members, including myself
So, what are the council up to?
At the moment we are working on importing the access lists for the core Ubuntu IRC channels into Launchpad. Why are we doing this? Well, we plan on managing the access lists for the [...]

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 at 08:07 | 0 comments
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