Nonprofit Salesforce.com on IRC

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:22 Written by Steve Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:21

Sonny Cloward has set up an IRC channel for discussion of all things relating to developing the Salesforce.com platform for nonprofit use. If you don’t know, an IRC channel is basically a chat room that’s open 24 hours a day.

Here are the details of the channel:

Server: irc.freenode.net
Channel: #npo-sfdc-dev

Sonny’s thinking that the room will be open for drop-in discussions of Salesforce.com for nonprofits, but will also have scheduled meeting times primarily supporting an idea we’re hatching for periodic conference calls with folks implementing Salesforce.com for nonprofits.

Sonny and I have committed to logging into the channel whenever we’re available, so feel free to drop by. We’ll be logging what goes on in the channel and posting those transcripts on the web.

If you’re new to IRC, GAIM is a great chat client with support for IRC. It will also support AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, etc. You can download GAIM and add an IRC Account pointing to irc.freenode.net. Then Join a Chat, and point that at #npo-sfdc-dev.

I hope to see you there sometime soon!

7 Comments

1. Mark   |  Thursday, 29 June 2006 at 5:00 am

   Great idea guys!! Now… if only my corporate firewall would let me in

   
2. Steve   |  Thursday, 29 June 2006 at 5:37 am

   Darn IT…

   
3. Mark   |  Thursday, 29 June 2006 at 7:50 am

   Maybe you could find a sponsor for a 37Signal’s CampFire room???!

   
4. Steve   |  Thursday, 29 June 2006 at 9:01 am

   There are so many options. IRC is nice because it’s free and we can publish the logs publicly. IRC isn’t nice because you need a client and you’ve found the protocol can be blocked. I’ve been in on a few chats in Campfire. Don’t know that public logging is an option.

   
5. gokubi.com » Blog Archive » Interesting conversations   |  Thursday, 29 June 2006 at 7:11 pm

   [...] I was hanging out in the Salesforce.com nonprofit developers IRC channel today and ran into Eugene Chan. We talked a bit about some interesting things he thinking about for modeling grant making in Salesforce.com. Mark, Rem, and Eric stopped by–check out the transcript to see if anything of interest to you was chatted about. [...]
6. rvt   |  Friday, 19 March 2010 at 2:08 pm

   the channel is empty, what happened to it?

   
7. Steve   |  Friday, 19 March 2010 at 2:22 pm

   It’s been unused for years now.