Young Composers IRC Channel

Hi guys,

I was using the forums chatbox and thought that it would be great to have an IRC channel for us. The nice administrator jawoodruff asked me to write this into the announcements section of the forums. The basic idea of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is to connect many people to a live chat and have them communicating with one another. All you need to get started is an IRC client, there are free and open source ones for every operating system:

For Mac: Colloquy

For Windows: Xchat2

For Linux: Xchat

For iPhone (not free): Colloquy

The way you connect is very simple. You install the application, find the "Servers" section in the program, type in the server adress and click on connect. After that you can join a channel by either writing "/join #channelname" in the chat or just specify the channels to join automatic on program startup in the application itself.

Here's a quick tutorial for the Mac IRC client Colloquy: http://docs.zetaboards.com/irc/colloquy

I already setup a testing channel on freenode (the server adress is: irc.freenode.net). The channel name is "youngcomposers" so you would write "/join #youngcomposers" to connect to it on freenode.

Please say your opinion on it, and if you would like a real chat, since the chatbox on the forums is very restricted and you can't do much there - even chatting is somewhat unelegant :)

If you have ANY question about IRC, just ask me. I will reply to you and I am quite sure I help you setup every IRC program that you choose.

Thank you