[FOSSRIT] Re: Get an IRC cloak for RIT!

[Justin W. Flory]

On 03/30/2017 05:46 PM, Mike Nolan wrote:
>  TIL alumnus is a gendered noun.
>  
>  Could I get a @rit/foss/alumnus cloak?
>   
Added to the list! Expect for it to be applied somewhere in mid-April. :)

>  On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Justin W. Flory
> <jflory7(a)gmail.com
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>  
>      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
>      <mailto:[e-mail]>) 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 <mailto:[e-mail]>
>  
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
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