Hi. I don't know whether this is the right place to ask this. If not, please forgive me and tell me the right direction.

In Japan not so many people speak English and I think this is one of the reasons why Drupal is not popular yet. To address this, I am planning to open a new IRC channel where people can ask about Drupal problems in Japanese.

How should I do this?
(I know I can create a channel with my IRC client, but the channel made in this way disappears as soon as I log off)

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chx’s picture

You first register yourself (/msg nickserv help, /msg nickserv register email@example.com password) and then register the channel (/msg chanserv register password). Find me if you have any problems.

greggles’s picture

Component: groups.drupal.org » Other
Status: Active » Fixed
aiwata55’s picture

chx,

thank you for the info.

the actual procedure was:
1. Register your account

/msg nickserv register [password] [e-mail_address]

(replace [password] with your password and [e-mail_address] with your e-mail address, respectively.)

2. Join (create) a IRC channel you want to register.
NOTE: You must be the operator of the channel. In other word, you must be the first account who joins the channel.

3. Register the IRC channel

/msg chanserv register [IRC_channel_name]

(replace [IRC_channel_name] with the channel name you want to register)

greggles,
Please update the information on http://drupal.org/irc . Thank you!

aiwata55’s picture

greggles,

By the way, I have opened the following IRC channels for Japanese Drupal users who cannot benefit from #drupal, #drupal-support, or other existing channels because of their language limitation (many Japanese are not comfortable with using English).

If you could add the following channels on http://drupal.org/irc , it will be very helpful for Japanese Drupal newbies who look for support in their language.

#drupal-jp
日本語での Drupal に関する話題。技術的な話題は避ける。グループについてや、雑談など。
Chat about Drupal in general, in Japanese. No technical issues. About Japanese Drupal user groups and so on.

#drupal-jp-support
日本語での Drupal に関する問題へのサポート。PHP、Hook、Theme に関することは避ける。主にモジュールの使い方など。
Drupal support in Japanese. No PHP, Hook, themes. Mainly about how to setup Drupal, what to do to achieve a particular function, what module is recommended for a given goal, how to setup a given module, etc.

#drupal-jp-dev
日本語での Drupal における開発(プログラミング?)に関する問題のサポート。PHP、Hook、メニューシステムなど。
Drupal development / programming support in Japanese. PHP, Hooks, Menu systems, etc.

#drupal-jp-themes
日本語での Drupal の theme や見た目に関する話題、問題へのサポート。HTML、CSS、Javascript など。
Drupal theming support in Japanese. HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc.

#drupal-jp-docs
Drupal に関する日本語ドキュメンテーションについての話題。想定しているのは、現在(2009/06/22時点)話が進んでいるモジュールの日本語リソースについてや、日本語 API サーバーについて、また今後 Drupal.org が Handbook として提供しているような初心者や Drupal 導入を検討している人向けのドキュメントを用意するとしたら、そうしたドキュメントについての話題。
Drupal Japanese documentation. About Japanese module localization server, Japanese API server, translation of Handbook to Japanese, etc.

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If these are too many, perhaps we can just add #drupal-jp-support and a link to http://groups.drupal.org/node/23421#comment-81245 as "ほかの日本語 IRC チャンネルのリスト(list of more Japanese channels)."

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I added Japanese explanations of the channels because those who are interested in these Japanese channels must be Japanese people, therefore it is better to show Japanese text for those who cannot understand English. Hence, if you kindly copy & paste the list above, please include Japanese text. Thank you very much for your assistance in advance, on behalf of Japanese Drupal users.

greggles’s picture

Updated with the shorter version - Thanks!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.