Sig9 - IRC Channel

Sig9 has two official channels, hosted by Freenode:

Our flagship channel, #sig9, is where we hang out, chat, discuss about anything relevant to Sig9, semester subjects, computers, science, philosophy, et. al.#sig9-talk is where the talks are held (see below), at least twice a week. To join any of these channels, you need an irc client such as mIRC, xchat etc. The server address is:

...and the channels are..

• A tutorial on how to connect to our server is available for Windows users.

Upcoming Talks

(Will be updated soon)

Talks Archived

This is a list of talks, in order, archived. As a rule, talks are available at /irc/<topic-name>

1. 10 January, 2005: Talk 0

2. 11 January, 2005: Regular Expressions: A Pragmatic Approach by Vivek Mohan Thampi

3. 21 January, 2005: XML HTTP Request: The magic behind Gmail by Vishnu Gopal

4. 29 January, 2005: Software Licenses: An Overview by Sherin Cleetus

About our Talks

Our IRC Talks are held once a week (often at weekends) at 10:30PM IST (+5:30 GMT). The talks, given by a person well-versed in the topic of the talk, is a pre-prepared session where the person gives an uninterrupted talk on the subject, like a live online lecture.

Framework and Rules

The talk happens in the #sig9-talk channel. During the talk, channel operators will frown upon members directly asking questions in the channel. Rather, members post questions to the #sig9 channel, and the topic presenter chooses questions which he finds insightful and answers them during the course of the talk. Unanswered questions, and logs of both the #sig9 and the #sig9-talk channel will be available as a permanant archive in irc/<topic-name>, where the presenter will also be available for further clarification.

Be polite and poised in the channel. Do not spam. Voice your questions as clearly as possible.