IRC

From Electron Club, Glasgow

Electron Club has an IRC channel #electronclub at irc.electronclub.org

It was created as a resource for discussing workshops, code, projects, networking, electronics and anything interesting really.

IRC, in case you didn't know, stands for Internet Relay Chat and is basically another way of communicating in real time with other people. It's mostly used by software developers and other geeks who like to hang out online without using msn/gmail/yahoo etc.

The history of IRC can be found here http://daniel.haxx.se/irchistory.html and the wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC

To use IRC, you have to first download an IRC client.

on linux/unix/bsd i always use irssi http://www.irssi.org

for windows you can use http://www.mirc.com

on mac http://xchataqua.sourceforge.net (download here) under GPL or http://www.ircle.com/ as 30day shareware

once installed, you just tell it to connect to irc.electronclub.org

then you just join #electronclub and you should be there...

each of these links above have excellent documentation on how to install and use the client, if your still struggling, this page has really basic instructions on how to get started http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html

if you still need help, just email the list