Greetings all!
Some quick updates while I have a few minutes of time. I am pleased to announce that we have finally have a designer for the new IRCnewbies.com website in place. This is thanks to Tranced on DALnet. His girlfriend is going to be the one that’s doing the site, and his friend will pick up the pieces on area(s) that she’s not certified in. Since this has the potential to save a lot of start-up costs, when the website is completed, I have made the decision to possibly link to the DALnet network with a server representing IRCnewbies.com. We have chosen newbies.pa.us.dal.net – this not only allows new users to remember /server newbies.dal.net, and the pa.us is due to where the server will be located.
More news – olyd88, Tranced, and dragonlair have all been brought on our DALnet team, and if they accept, will be joining the IRCnewbies.com team on various projects.
We have a few channels now established on DALnet; #CyberAngels for internet security, chat, and general assistance. #Beginners is our main help channel, and we also have two default mIRC channels set up – #TeenFactory (for teenage users of course, and #mIRCSupport, which is another help channel set up by our team.) This channel was recently passed on to me from tyrant, we have some high expectations for this channel.
ABN has been doing a great job within the IRCnewbies.com team, and I have to admit that I can not be more pleased on who I chose to help me with this project. It’s definately more work then I originally thought it would be, and I know that in the long run, it isn’t something that I can do alone. Speaking of staff, we have chose to remove Roi_Scorpion, BetterMan, and Arch from the IRCNewbies.com team. We have no hard feelings against these three individuals. We merely understand that they are focusing on their promotions, and status on the Webnet (WebChat/Webmaster) community. Again, we wish the best of luck to the three of ya! You all better do me proud as opers on Webchat, just remember who’s footsteps you’re following in!
This is just some of what we’re going to attempt to have on the IRCnewbies.com website. I hope I can remember it.. (I’m not at home).
1. User accounts, each user will be able to create a profile. Here you’ll be able to have your age, sex, location, networks, channels, websites, nicknames, etc.
2. Forums: Forums for questions, comments, suggestions, links, etc.
3. Channels: Channels (which will have java connections available) that are recommended by The IRCnewbies.com Team.
4. Help Library: An interactive library, in which users will be able to contribute help files for others to view, and even download.
5. Contests: Extra money generated from ads, etc for IRCnewbies.com will go to pay the hosting and what-not. Any remaining funds, we will hold various contests for our members. These contests will have various prizes such as gift cards, instant cash payments (via: paypal), t-shirts, etc.
6. IRCnewbies Store: The IRCnewbies.com store will provide coffee mugs, t-shirts, hoodies, mouse pads, etc.
7. Vhost(s)/BNC’s: Staff will all have the @staff.ircnewbies.com vhost, certain members will also have vhosts available.
8. News Room: News from the various IRC networks, our team, mIRC, World News, USA news, etc.
9. Classes: Classes on various IRC topics. We are even working on setting up videos for the classes to make them more interactive, with a live chat taking place in the channels.
10. Newsletter: Once a month newsletter for members. The newsletter will have various sections, and we will even be setting up a form for users to submit news, and what-not to contribute to the newsletter. We hope to make the newsletter as interactive as possible. We are also going to allow channels to take about their channel, websites, etc.
I think that’s enough for now. I will post anything that is important that I forgot about. I will have more news in the upcoming 2 weeks, so keep checking back! Also, IRCnewbies.com has officially hit 2,200 unique hits for the month of June. I can’t believe how many people are actually taking a liking to the project. I even got some great feedback from Mark (The owner of the Webnet (WebChat/Webmaster network). As the fourth of July approaches, we want to remind everyone to stay safe, and let us know of any exciting events that you have planned!
June 30, 2011 at 2:29 am
Ladies & Gentlemen
I will now include the following statements adding to the post above. As an attached comment and statement below. In a couple of days, I will be conducting an private meeting and discussion to review all the events taking place. As we continue to process the webpage (main site)
As COO. I will continue to check the progress and updates regarding each event and continue to monitor its progress. I am rather pleased how well the project is rolling. Also, I will be going over a lot of data to prepare for the next scheduled announcements. Please continue to check, login and support all of our updates in ircnewbies main webpage, News pages, and IRCNewbies forums.
In Regards,
ABN (COO ircnewbies.com)