Open Source Comes to Campus/Curriculum/Laptop setup/OSX IRC: Difference between revisions

On OS X, we'll be using Colloquy, a popular graphical IRC chat client.

# [http://hivelocity.dl.sourceforge.net/project/colloquy.mirror/colloquy-latest.zip Download Colloquy from this link].

# Copy the Colloquy application to your Applications folder.

# '''Potential problem (and solution)''': When you try to open Colloquy, you may get a message from OS X saying that it's from an unidentified developer so you can't open it. To fix this, open your System Preferences application, click "Security & Privacy", click the "General" tab, and you may see an "Open Anyway" button regarding the Colloquy app that you just tried to open. You can click that button! You can also change the setting under "Allow applications downloaded from..." to "Anywhere".

# Read through the material on [http://www.smogon.com/irc/tutorials/colloquy Getting started with Colloquy] - but '''note''' that instead of connecting to the server name and channel name recommended in this tutorial, you should use the IRC server name and channel name listed below. We'll practice using IRC in depth later in the day.

IRC server name: irc.freenode.net

Given that information, and reviewing the Colloquy overview above, use Colloquy to connect to Freenode and join the OpenHatch channel. Pick any nickname you like. :) Once you have joined the channel, say hello!