Re: A few random thoughts

[Greg Harvey <Greg dot Harvey at thezone dot net>]

Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@munich.netsurf.de> writes:

> Greg Harvey writes:
>  > 
>  > Just a few bits that I haven't gotten around to addressing.
>  > 
>  > There are still options for this, though (freeprojects.net will
>  >    provide irc channels, for instance, and this'd be a cool way to
>  >    test out the guile irc clients).

Doh, meant openprojects.net. I was close, though.

> 
> There is a #guile channel on irc.eu.openprojects.net and another on
> efnet, (not that anyone is ever there, 2 or 3 maximum).
> I didn't test any guile irc client, as the emacs irc clients are
> yet good enough f'me. It would be good to have a guile-gtk-irc-client
> as a 'reference project' for tcp/ip stuff with guile-gtk in gnome ,
> I don't know whether there has been much work on guile and tcp/ip
> done in general except the old legacy code.
>  
>  >    really cool to have once a month `meeting' where you could get
>  >    people working on guile and people using guile together to chat
>  >    about what they like and don't like, and what's being done. This
>  >    has some problems (timezone differences are the first thing that
>  >    comes to mind), but I still think it would be worth a try if enough
>  >    people are willing. Any other suggestions for this sort of thing?
>  > 
> there is a project called GNU-gather , somewhere, which provides both
> synchronous and asynchronous conference stuff. Maybe one can find a 
> way to  use guile gainfully in it.

It's not entirely important that it use guile (though that's a nice
plus, communicating about guile with guile), but it has to be
something that can be used without a dedicated server on a fast
connection (if that were available, I'd run a mud where you could slap
around smobs and gc bugs :).

-- 
Greg