[FOSSRIT] Get an IRC cloak for RIT!

[Justin W. Flory]

Hey everyone!

As of now, we are officially registered as a project with freenode. As
mentioned before, this also means that we can now request custom
hostname cloaks for members of the RIT community in IRC.

What does this mean? An IRC cloak is like a "mask" for your hostname
whenever you connect to a channel. For example, if I join an IRC channel
without a cloak, it might look like the following:

    * jwf (jflory7(a)laptop.student.rit.edu) has joined

If I have a cloak and I am logged into NickServ, it could look like this
instead:

    * jwf (jflory7@rit/foss/student) has joined

As of now, we have a few options for people to pick from! If I can
collect a list of usernames and the desired cloaks, I can send this list
to the freenode staff to add the cloaks to your freenode NickServ
accounts. It will help the staff team if we can send them a list at once
instead of doing multiple, one-off requests.

Here's the list of cloaks we currently have available:

* @rit/student
* @rit/professor
* @rit/faculty
* @rit/alumnus
* @rit/alumnae
* @rit/foss/student
* @rit/foss/captain
* @rit/foss/faculty
* @rit/foss/alumnus
* @rit/foss/alumnae
* @rit/ritlug/member
* @rit/ritlug/alumnus
* @rit/ritlug/alumnae

It's also possible to add a Linux distribution or another open source
project community to the cloak, before the last identifier, e.g.
@rit/ritlug/fedora/member or @rit/foss/musicbrainz/member.

If you would like one of these cloaks, please reply back to this email
with your IRC NickServ username and which cloak you would like. :)

Thanks all!

-- 
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com