silc: not good enough

Sadly, SILC isn't really mature enough for general use by newbies... The windows silc pluging for gaim is ok but it doesn't deal with modes and stuff properly, the server doesn't have any proper methods for registering or operating services, and the clients other than that are either difficult to use for newbies (the irssi silc plugin) or very inadequate (silky)...

So I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and learn how to run a real ircd properly, unrealircd seems to be the most 'stable' according to gentoo portage devs, and anope, although unstable, actually compiles, and seems to be popular and supports unrealircd. I will also install the cgi irc client so there is a direct web-browser based irc client for those unwilling or unable to install an irc client.

It's a bit disappointing that silc is still so immature. *shrug* I'll most likely configure and get the irc server stuff running tomorrow, and maybe the cgi:irc thing as well.

Once the irc servers are up and running, the next step will be to get the wiki fully running, configure access control and then I can start editing it, create content, edit the skin, that sort of thing.

Once I get to that stage I will be able to start working towards finding users for the services. Maybe. I don't know what kind of reception this idea is going to get but I might as well give it a go.

I think that it is highly unlikely that there is less than 50 potential users of the IRC in the international clubhouse community, and once the early adopters start using it, it is only a matter of time before the rest of the community realises the potential for using it as a way to co-ordinate and organise action between clubhouses and for the clubhouse movement as a whole.