[Gardeners] #cl-gardeners on FreeNode, IRC for lisp newcomers!

[Peter Seibel]

On Feb 12, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Matthew Astley wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 09:54:58PM +0100, Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:
>> Short story: Join #cl-gardeners.
>
> I popped in...  this afternoon's selection of #lisp transcript says,
>
>  mcast: anyone know how the new #cl-gardeners channel would invite  
> specbot, minion, lisppaste (and others?) in?
>  cliini: mcast, the channel owner could ask chandler.
>  Xach: mcast: email chandler at unmutual.info
>  mcast: thanks, that should be to go on
>  mcast: I'm not the owner, just a likely lurker
>
> I know that specbot and lisppaste would be useful.  I haven't poked
> minion so I don't know much about it.

Minion is the bot with a minor attitude that can answer (very  
slightly) more free-form questions.

> Who is the channel owner?

therp started it. I think he gave some other folks op privileges and  
maybe some of them (unlike me) actually know how to wield them.

-Peter


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