[PLUG] Let's have an online PLUG meet!

[Dhanesh B. Sabane]

Hey Aniruddh,

On Sat, 2020-07-25 at 15:42 +0530, Aniruddh Katkar wrote:
> Please ignore my previous email I got pidgin
> 
> By the way it's asking for password to join channel is #pluggies
> 

You'll have to register on freenode to be able to join #pluggies. This
check was enforced after we faced a huge amount of spam a few months
ago.

> > 
> > mIRC does appears to be available for only for windows.. What if I
> > don't have any windows machine available..?
> > 

There are a bunch of other clients too that you can use on Linux. I
personally use HexChat but Element is currently my primary client to
connect to IRC channels.

If anyone wants to join in but doesn't have a registered account, have
a look at this document which explains how to register one on the
freenode IRC server -

https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration

Cheers!

> > Thanking you
> > 
> > Aniruddha Katkar 
> > 
> > Sent on Blackberry Priv
> > 
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 14:08 Dhanesh B. Sabane <
> > dhanesh95 at disroot.org> wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > > 
> > > I'm sure quite a few of us are stranded at home in the current
> > > situation and are missing the monthly PLUG meetups that used to
> > > happen
> > > (feels like many moons ago). The idea of an online PLUG meet has
> > > been
> > > floated around quite a few times on the IRC channel and I thought
> > > it
> > > would be best to just involve everyone on the mailing list so
> > > that
> > > anyone who'd like to assist can jump in. So far we have myself
> > > and a
> > > couple of other members willing to organise this.
> > > 
> > > Please do let us know if you have any ideas, suggestions or
> > > queries for
> > > this online meetup. We are available on the #pluggies IRC channel
> > > if
> > > you'd like to chat in real time or just reply to this email,
> > > that'll
> > > work too. :)
> > > 
> > > We'll update here once we have a solid plan in place!
> > > 
> > > See you on the flip side!
> > > 
> > > Cheers!
> > > 
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