[WMF-outreach-staff] Dear local team: IRC-related network oddities?

[Gregory Varnum]

Is the Freenode outreach already happening?


-Greg

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On Jul 7, 2012, at 9:22 PM, James Hare <james.hare at wikidc.org> wrote:

> We gave them a list of network ports to have enabled and they will
> enable all of them.
> 
> The issue is that we have to coördinate with Freenode that they know
> that all these people connecting from the same place are not some kind
> of denial of service attack.
> 
> James
> 
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
>> I would like to know if the GWU network employs any sort of port-blocking
>> that would make IRC clients not work.
>> 
>> The first section of
>> http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon/Laptop_setup has the IRC
>> setup instructions that we'll ask people to go through. I'd like to know
>> sooner rather than later if we have to make adjustments due to local network
>> oddities.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> -- Asheesh.
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