[Bf-webcontent] Updated Chat Section of Website

[Chris Burt]

Bart,

Actually we do have a relationship with them :) Take a look at the 
participating groups page on www.freenode.net. I've set it up so that 
Blender is an officially recognized project on Freenode. We'll are now 
eligible for Blender cloaks (currently I've set up about 25 users with 
.coder.blender, .artist.blender, and .support.blender) and in the future 
  Freenode will offer us various services to attract more developers. 
Had a long talk with Lilo :) To quote the page:

"The following participating groups and entities maintain official 
relationships with freenode and PDPC. Each is listed along with the top 
level domain(s) under which its affiliated users may be cloaked. Cloaks 
are special "virtual hostnames" which appear on a user's freenode 
session to indicate that user's affiliation with a group."

Blender is on this list now :) I would go as far as saying this is a 
partnership of sorts, and since its all about free and open source, I 
*cannot* see how this wording can hurt. I hope that clears things up :)

Regards,
Chris


Bart Veldhuizen wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> looks good to me, although the word 'partnership' is not right I think. 
> We merely use their network, but we don't have any relation with them.
> 
> Anyway, I've copied the new content into the right place in the CMS and 
> I've added this page to your account so that you can edit it directly. 
> Please take another look at that last paragraph and let me know when 
> it's ready to be published.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bart