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I'd like to see more people around, so I am proposing for a party be made. Perhaps we can agree to some sort of date and time in which everyone who is interested can come online and meet each other.

If you'd like to be there, post here with perhaps general dates and times that would be fine to do it.

I look forward to the party!

If the world should blow itself up,the last audible voice would be an expert saying it can't be done

Unfortuantly I wasn't able to participate all too much with NAO this year due to many many factors.

But I'm up for this party thing!

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I like the idea, and I wanted to reply to it earlier, but due to technical difficulties (the usual suspects: hacking some custom features into an IRC server) my reply's been somewhat delayed.

I don't know if this is gonna be used at all, but starting from today there's a remake of the NAO IRC server online. Direct your IRC client to www.netalive.org, port 6666 or 6667, and log in with your NAO username/password combination.

Maybe we can agree to meet there and/or here at a certain time, and chat for a bit... or even write a few posts?

I'm available, though not always online, from 09:00-22:00 UTC.

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I put in a blank password and got booted. Now I get 'connection refused' every time.

Hmm, that's strange! Does it work now?

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Oh, elaborating on the login procedure:

Use your NAO user name as nickname, or type

/nick null

once you've connected to the server. Then type

/pass whatever

and if all goes well, the server should greet you with

Welcome, null!

You can log in with any nick and no password, but you won't be able to /join channels until you've authenticated yourself.

Good luck!
(And yell if there are any problems)

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Yep. It let me back in this time.
What channel are we hanging out in? /list doesn't give me anything.

/list doesn't give me anything.

That's mainly because nobody's there :-P

I usually open two channels, #general and #NAO, to idle in.

If a few more people would like to hang out, maybe it'd be a good idea to agree on a time?

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How about we agree to meeting once a week (at least at first). If we have enough people, we can start having chats more times per week.

How about something like 20:00 UTC? I don't want it to be too early, because some of us might be logging in from the western time zones.

Day? Friday.. everybody loves Friday.

This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays. -Arthur Dent (after being told that earth would be destroyed)

If the world should blow itself up,the last audible voice would be an expert saying it can't be done

How about something like 20:00 UTC?

I'm in. We might need to change the time tho if many people from Asia&friends join, as 20:00 UTC is early morning there.

My time zone is UTC+1.

Who else is in?

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