vBulletin House of Commons - IRC Chat Event !
 

This is a special vB.org announcement to inform vB.org hackers and members of a special one-of-a-kind vB event where you get to meet and chat with some of the people who have brought you vB! This event appears to have been organized by xiphoid.

vB.com thread about this here (upon which this announcement is based):
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...threadid=68854

> What is this event ?
Everybody who is interested in having a real-time on-line chat about vBulletin and specificly about the upcoming version (3), is hereby invited to participate.

> Who will be there ?
Hopefully several official vBulletin team members and developers. Users who have experience with running vBulletin (version 3) on their web site for some time now and known template and source code hackers and hopefully some other familiar faces. And you?

At the moment several users from the vBulletin staff have informed us that they will do their best to join the chat! We have also received a few comments from users from the hacking community and users who already run version 3 of vBulletin. If you want to join, or chat with them, then we will see you soon!

> What will be discussed ?
In general the vBulletin software, and specifically version 3. Everybody is allowed to share their thoughts and ideas about the upcoming version. But ofcourse, anything vBulletin related is welcome and open for discussion. The great thing is, you can ask questions directly!

> When is this event ?
We have set the date for upcoming Friday (April 11th 2003).
We will log everything, so if you miss it, you can read afterwards (but of course, that isn't as cool). You are welcome the whole 24 hours of the day, but we hope most will join around 19:00 GMT +1

> Where is this event ?
The IRC vBulletin Chat will be held in the official vBulletin.org IRC channel #vBorg on the DevCore Network. You can come there with any IRC chat client, or by the java chat feature through the vBulletin.org web site. If you want to come with your own IRC client, point it to: /server irc.devcore.co.uk 6667 and once connected, /join #vBorg (For Windows users we advice mIRC (download) and for *nix users we advice irssi).

> Anything special ?
Of course we can not promise anything, but hopefully when one of the developers have the time to join, he or she might spill some unknown, yet unreleased information about the upcomming version of vBulletin!

> I have more questions !
Feel free to ask > info@vBulletin.nl (xiphoid)

> Other relevant info:

Users with the @ sign in front of their name:
These are the channel operators. They manage the channel and the users in the channel. These users can be robots, vbulletin staff members, or just regular users (like me) picked out to help out. We can not give you channel operator status, so don't ask for it. And if a user is misbehaving, or you need help, you can contact a channel operator to help you out.

Users with the + sign in front of their name:
These are users who are 'voiced', this is more a sign of respect and friendship, rather then serving its original purpose for when the channel is 'muted'. We will give out voice to certain users, staff members or otherwise.

Users with no signs in front of their name:
Visiters of the channel.

Users who misbehave:
If we find a user spamming their site, swearing in the channel or ranting/flaming others - the channel operators might take action in the form of a kick from the channel or even a ban from the channel. The same rules apply as seen on most forums apply to the chat too. So please behave!

teehee,

Yeah, I thought it would be nice to see who would like to chat about vBulletin. So last week I decided to go for it and just invite everybody. Ofcourse, I am not promising anything, if users and guests just don't have the time to show up, they won't. But hey, who knows, maybe everybody can and then we have a fun chat!

So far, I have received positive feedback and they will all try their best to participate!

Thank you for posting it!

Great idea Erwin. I hope it's easy for me to get there at a different time zone but on a Saturday it should be easy.

I'll be there. :)

Should be interesting ;)...

Wow!

*makes note*

Got to go chat:D

Satan

I'm on 2 servers now, I think I can remember hopefully. :p

This event appears to have been organized by xiphoid.

:chinese:


Glad to hear you are all so excited about it :bunny: See you all soon at the channel then :) (or at least saturday)

I have the day off from work, so i'll stop in eventually :D

I'll be there as soon as I figure out the time change and what time it is in CST. *hehe* :D

Ill try to be there

Usually I have Saturday track meets, but not this one, so I'll defiantly be there. ;)

it's nice by him to use my timezone, so nothing to calculate for me ;)

i hope i'll find the time to look into the chat a bit :)

ill be there...

sounds good i'll defo be there, hopefully get a projected date for vb3 from all this

<font size="5">UPDATE:
DUE TO RECENT DEVELOPMENT THE EVENT IS TODAY

FRIDAY, 11 APRIL 2003 @ 18:00 GMT
</font>

This so Kier, Freddie, Scott, Chen, Cary, etc can join - turns out none of them have the time on saturday!

SORRY for the confusion !!!!!

Sorry about that xiphoid, nice work to you. :)

I'm in there now, going well I see. :D

Ok, see you there.

[13:25] * Joins: partang2 (~vborg-jav@ti121210a080-4062.bb.online.no)
[13:26] <Davey> Nice.
[13:26] <partang2> Hello everybody!
[13:27] * Quits: partang2 (~vborg-jav@ti121210a080-4062.bb.online.no) (I love the vBulletin.org Chat :)


Short visit !

With which username ?

Tony. Quit for a short time though.

See you back later then :)

At the moment, scott is taking a shower:

[13:17] <@Scott> i shall go shower now
[13:17] <@Scott> Be Right Back
[13:17] <Davey> Okay Scott.

And Kier and Chen are currently idle, commenting from time to time.

Kier also mentioned that he will try to join later tonight again, and ofcourse, we all hope with a spoiler !

[update]
While I was typing this, scott came back :D

[13:42] <@Scott> thats me showered
[13:42] <@Scott> and clean
[13:42] <@Scott> :D

hmm, today isn't that good..
saturday would have been better for me, but well i'll visit late maybe

Alright. I'll still be there.
Just so I don't forget...
*loads the channel and idles*

Hi razor, just saw you online.

Xenon, can you update the announcement ? I pm'd you on vbcom

hmm, as i know i'd already updated it ;)

you should pm me here, i don't check vb.com as often as here ;)

True, but you were online there in the whoisonline, and not here :> So I'd just took my chances :D

Thank you for updating it.
I also PM'd erwin, but I got you sooner. Since you were online.

uhm, no real need for me to say that I'll be there, I'm always there :p

me too :)

and me too

30+ users in the channel, getting bigger and better !

including staff members

oh, btw, when i got htere (not today, but way before) there were like 4 users :)

It is quiet most of the time, now we have over 30 users :)

Tis going well so far ;)

Drat, the event is today-- of course I'm stuck at school and then with sports afterwords till 6PM Pacific Time. Oh well.

!! The Chat Event Has Ended !!

Sorry everybody who missed it, we had a great time, some great chats, and we gained some cool new details about vBulletin, the people behind vBulletin and the upcomming vBulletin version 3. Everybody had their chance to ask their questions, share their experience with vBulletin (and version 3) and post their complaints.

We have logged everything, and will compile a nice log with links and extra's on the vBulletin.nl website in the upcomming 48 hours! So check it out if you missed it, or keep it as a nice reference point.

Hint: New unseen before vBulletin version 3 admin control panel screenshot(s) and even some example php code and other details.

Present:
vBulletin.com Staff : Developers > Kier, Scott, Freddie / Team Members > Chen, TubeDogg, Cary
vBulletin.org Staff : Administrators > Xenon / Moderators > Mist

Special thanks to vBulletin.org and Jon & Derek from DevCore for hosting the ircd and java chat applet which helped everybody to join!

And ofcourse thanks everybody who participated.

For those who thought this event was for Saturday, sorry! Due to recent events we had to decide to move to Friday. If this caused you to miss the chat event, we do have it logged, but more importantly: You can participate at any time! The IRC Chat server is up 24 hours of the day, and there is always someone in the irc channel. Regular vBulletin staff members like Scott and Chen are also present (though idle at times) - so it might be worth a peek!

Anyway,
thank you all, and it was a pleassure to realize my idea and actually see people showing up!

Floris.

Bummer. I thought the event was Saturday. But it turns out I can't access it at work anyway.

Anyway, I'm glad for everyone that made it and it was a success. Maybe more of these regularly would be nice. :D

we also have to thank xiphoid for the organization of this great event.
it was well done, and a nice and comfortable time to chat and also collect infos :)

Yes,

Thank you xiphoid, I had a great time! I hope everyone else did too! :)

Sorry, I missed it guys, as I thought it was Saturday. :) Next time...

Yeah, it was changed earlier today, sorry you couldnt make it... :(

Next time though, hopefully. ;)

I also missed it.

Oh well, there's always next time :D