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[Jun. 23rd, 2009|12:17 pm] |
Something I've been doing for the last few months and haven't written about yet is that I'm now a volunteer staff member on the freenode IRC network.
I've been participating in freenode as a user for many years, out of all the IRC networks I use it is the one I am the most active on.
During 2008 I started to take a bit more of an interest in the network outside of my usual haunts, and as well as joining a few social channels I started helping out in the general support channel, #freenode - answering the odd question where I could.
In February network head honcho Christel approached me and asked if I had any interest in coming on board as a staff member.
The months since then have been quite interesting as I've gotten to grips with the technical side (from my experience running an IRC server as part of the backnet and imaginarynet projects I knew a bit about what goes on 'behind the curtain', but freenode is on a completely different scale from that exercise) and gotten to know the staff team - who I've found to be friendly, professional yet fun to work with - and the wide and diverse freenode community. The work has ranged from the day-to-day technical stuff to liaising with users groups and helping mediate where there have been problems. |
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