Introduction

The Ikasan EIP community uses IRC for real time chat. You'll usually find a bunch of users and developers hanging out there discussing various Ikasan EIP issues!

Connection Details

• Hosting provider: freenode
• Channel to join: #ikasaneip

How to use IRC

• http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IRC/beginners.html

IRC Clients

• Chatzilla
• mIRC
• Pidgin

Quick Start

If you are new to IRC clients, then this will get you started on how to use one. I will be explaining the steps for using Pidgin chat client to join our project's IRC channel. The steps will be similar for other IRC clients too.

• Download Pidgin http://www.pidgin.im/download/. Select the right one based on which Operating System you want to install it on.
• Follow the instructions to install it on your system.
• Open Pidgin (on *nix OS, you just have to run the pidgin command)
• Click Manage Acccount -> Add
• Select protocol IRC
• Give an username which you want to use while joining the IRC channel(s)
• Enter the server name as irc.freenode.net
• Leave the password field empty
• Enable the account
• Under Buddies, select "Add a Chat"
• In the channel textbox, enter #ikasaneip
• You can leave the rest of the fields empty and click on Add
• Right click on the newly added channel and select "Join"

That's it! You now have joined the project's IRC channel.

For more FAQs on how to use Pidgin:

• http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin