Repost from yesterday, for all you who didn't see it...
In an effort to harness the speed and power of the dkos community, I have set up a chatroom on the IRC network EFnet. The channel is #dailykos, for those of you familiar with IRC, and there are about 70 or more people there currently. With this, we can debunk Bush's lies in real time.
I have not been too impressed with the Kerry war room, and I thought that we should take matters into our hands, as best we can. By employing a grassroots operation to define the talking points, we can defeat the meme that has already started to seep into the SCLM that Bush has already won the debate. Let's play the ball on our court!
If you already have an IRC client installed (such as Chatzilla), simply click
here.
Hopefully, everyone has seen the
Kerry Debate Rapid Response Team, if not you need to go sign up now. With the talking points and clips from the chatroom, and enough people ready to start the spin immediately after the debates, we can really take control of this and prove our man did the job. Good luck, and grab a good seat!
Read on for more information on IRC and getting it set up...
For windows users:
The easiest program is probably
mIRC. Download and install that program, and once you start it up it will ask for a little bit of information. Fill out the nickname you would like to use, and the name you would like people to be able to see, and go to the server tab and select an EFnet server from the dropdown box. I personally use irc.blessed.net or irc.he.net, although any of the servers are fine. If you then hit connect to server, that should work, although you can alternatively type
/server irc.blessed.net
in the main status window. You should then connect to the server, and up will pop a channel join box. Type in #dailykos and then click Join, or type
/join #dailykos
and you should be in.
For mac users:
I do not own a mac, nor have I ever tried to IRC on one, but a little bit of googling has led me to believe that the easiest to use mac IRC client is called
Snak. There is also a client called Conversation that user Swampfoot was kind enough to help write some instructions on:
This is gonna be a pretty simple glossing over, for more details, visit the Conversation Homepage at:
http://homepage.mac.com/philrobin/conversation/
Go to the above website, scroll down a page or so, and click the arrow under "1.4.2 for 10.2"
Once you download the program, you will have an icon titled "Conversation1.4.2.dmg" in the spot where your web browser downloads normally end up.
Double click it. On your desktop will appear another icon, this time titled "dossier sans titre" (?). Double click on it, and there's the program (icon titled "Conversation.") Drag it to your applications folder.
Double click on it. Up will appear a "Connection" box. Enter a nickname that you think will be unique, and 9 characters or less. No spaces allowed, but underscores (_) are ok. You should not need any password, leave that blank.
In the line where it says "Server" put in this, only because it seems to be working okay today:
efnet.demon.co.uk
If that one will not let you in, there is a page that has a list of known working servers for you to try until you find one that will let you in:
http://www.erienet.net/~circle/links.html
Once you have entered the server (leave the port box alone), click on the Connect button.
if successful, you should see a scroll of a lot of text explaining the rules for using their server. To summarize them, use common sense.
To join #dailykos (The pound sign is IRC-speak for 'Channel' which is another way of saying "chat room"), go to the File menu, choose "New Conversation", type "dailykos" into the box labeled "Channel" and hit the join button.
The channel window appears, with the list of who's already there in a pop-out panel on the right. Start talking by typing, when you're ready to send your text to the channel, hit Return.
Now you're on your own!
Once in #dailykos...
You'll see a handful of people with @'s in front of their names, those are operators who administrate the channel, change the topic, kick out rude users, etc. If the channel gets large enough and there are too many side conversations (e.g. during the debates), the operators may set the channel mode to 'moderated', preventing anyone without an @ or a + in front of their name from speaking. In that case, we will 'voice' users who are registered daily kos members (give them a + in front of their name) and allow these users to talk.
That's about all I think there is to IRC, so hopefully you'll all join us and we can become a more effective rapid response team for Kerry.