#pythonK12 (without the dash) could be a hashtag, as well.<div><br></div><div>There was a discussion on the python-dev list awhile ago about Slack, Gitter, Mattermost, and Zulip; which are all HTTP-based chat solutions with mobile clients and serverside logging.</div><div><br></div><div>Python-dev chose to create a Zulip instance. Zulip was initially created at Dropbox. [1]</div><div><br></div><div>Slack, Gitter, Matter most, and Zulip all have free and paid plans for hosted webchat with bots. Mattermost and Zulip are open source and can be run on-premise.</div><div><br></div><div>I think all of them support @mentions now; which, for IRC, requires some IRC-fu and constantly idling with an IRC c lient app that may or may not expose the IP address.</div><div><br></div><div>With free hosted plans, serverside logging is limited but better than directing new joins to the an IRC chan to the log available over HTTP as HTML or /dcc.</div><div><br></div><div>It may be even less likely that edu-sig users will IRC than that python-dev users will IRC; YMMV.</div><div><br></div><div><div>[1] <a href="https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-April/152826.html">https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-April/152826.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/dev-python/JyyOu5ypBqA">https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/dev-python/JyyOu5ypBqA</a></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.python.python-dev#query:list%3Aorg.python.python-dev%20zulip+page:1+mid:p2f37mkblhdoyxys+state:results">https://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.python.python-dev#query:list%3Aorg.python.python-dev%20zulip+page:1+mid:p2f37mkblhdoyxys+state:results</a></div><div><br></div><div>> [Python-Dev] Introducing <a href="http://python.zulipchat.com">python.zulipchat.com</a></div><div>></div><div>> As an experiment we have gotten an instance of Zulip running for Python's development at <a href="https://python.zulipchat.com">https://python.zulipchat.com</a> (IOW this is for discussing the development *of* Python only*)*. As Guido has put it you can view Zulip like "hyper-interactive email" as we have streams corresponding to equivalent mailing lists and all messages fall under a topic so conversations are on-topic.</div><div>> </div><div>> [...]</div></div><div><br></div><div><br>On Sunday, May 13, 2018, Kevin Cole <<a href="mailto:kevin.cole@novawebdevelopment.org">kevin.cole@novawebdevelopment.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#4c1130"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 10:40 PM, Sebastian Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@fuentelibre.org" target="_blank">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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couple of days and haven't seen anyone come by.</p></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">By "that IRC channel" are you referring to <u><b>#python-k12</b></u>?</div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">I think that's what Jeff meant by "what IRC channel" -- i.e. the name not the details of how it was implemented.</div><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>
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