A Team IRC meeting

First meeting

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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 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 tinyurl.com to copy your url and make is small.... that is too long to be pasted here, so I put it in the tinyurl.com and in return it gave me : http://tinyurl.com/201027log when you click on the short url, tinyurl.com will redirct you to the long one :)