A Team IRC meeting

First meeting

1- First of all, understand that IRC meetings and chats are much slower than talking so be patient

2- IRC in nature is a very casual environment, so don't be surprised to see casual talk like : wassssssup!!!!!!! But in at the same time, make sure not to cross the line by used bad and impolite words. (no "F" words for example)

3- Since visual contact is not possible, every now and the drop a word to show the meeting holder you are there ok?

4- when in a meeting being funny with one or two smart thing to say, it ok, but again, DO NOT over do it

5- when you enter a chat room and you see a meeting is happening, if you must say somehting to someone, use their nick like:

6- people with @ in front of their name are moderators. They can kick you out of a chat room if you misbehave, or even ban you from the chat room for ever.

(This is the major difference between IRC and kindergarten chat programs like MSN)

7- if you are to meet few of your team members for a meeting in a chat room, say in #seneca and you find out it is very crowded and busy... you can create temporary chat rooms by simply /join #A_NonExistantRoomName

8- if you are talking about a program you wrote and want to show it to your friends use the http://pastebin.ca website to copy the text and post it, then copy the url and put pass the usl also, if you have a very long URL and want to give it to others, do this: use http://tinyurl.com/to copy your url and make is small.... when you click on the short url, tinyurl.com will redirct you to the long one :)