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@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!