Re: [Caml-list] Group registration on Freenode.net for #ocaml channels

[Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 05, 2018, Adrien Nader wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2018, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> > 
> > > On 5 Jan 2018, at 20:08, Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Now that group registration is possible again, I'm looking at the
> > > process: http://freenode.net/groupreg . It's not legalese but it's
> > > clearly not very entertaining.
> > > The main takeaway is « Represents an official relationship between
> > > freenode and your project or organisation. ». Everything else is a
> > > consequence.
> > > 
> > > Is there a legal/formal entity that wants to establish that official
> > > relationship with freenode? This doesn't imply managing the IRC channels
> > > but only doing the registration and deciding who gets to actually manage
> > > the IRC channels. If so, what should that contact email address be? If
> > > not, can "we" register as an informal group?
> > > [ Note that without any answer within 30 days, i.e. post-FOSDEM, I will
> > > assume there is no interest from a formal entity to enter a relationship
> > > with freenode and that we can register as an informal group ]
> > 
> > Dear Adrien,
> > 
> > Thanks for looking into this.  I think an ‘informal project-oriented group’
> > is most appropriate for a programming language community like ours
> > on Freenode.
> > 
> > Feel free to put me down as a contact if it helps.
> 
> Thanks for the input.
> 
> If informal group is the option that is chosen, then I'll need at least
> a few other people to add as contacts. If others want to be part of
> that list, please drop me an e-mail or a message on IRC.
> 
> By the way, is there an "ocaml" trademark? I remember from years ago
> that this was mentioned when discussing groups on freenode.
> 
> PS: I was told over IRC that I used "dash" everywhere in my email but I
> meant "hash", the '#' character.

I've been busy with other things recently and I've lacked time to push
things further but I wanted to let everyone know I still intend to move
this forward. Moreover, several people have expressed interest in being
part of such a group and I think making the group registration won't be
an issue. :) 

-- 
Adrien