Slacknet

irc.ilovepunani.net has been approved for trial link status. The opers are: Funky, beammedown, and anklebiter.

irc.projectparanormal.org has been approved, it is located in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

The test link for irc.planeofnexus.com has been approved. It is located in Missoula, Montana. The administrators are xaoz and Selekta.

As you may have heard in previous posts, global messages, and around IRC -- Slacknet Communications has been talking with the company I work for called The Umbrella Group about selling their assets to us. There are many reasons both sides were discussing such a business venture.

The Slacknet Team wanted to be able to expand their IRC network and other projects, however they did not have the resources to do this. Umbrella was looking for new projects and ways to expand its business, so the conclusion was fairly simple; just discussing the details and finalizing a contract was the difficult part.

Essentially all Slacknet projects, except the IRC network, are now being re-started under The Umbrella Group's project division. The IRC Network's management will be via a committee in which two server administrators from all servers vote on issues.

Also, Slacknet IRC Network has switched from Hybrid and HybServ2 to Unreal and Anope. This, however, does not make us a cookie cutter network, as we have already started to customize both the IRCd and the services -- for example to log into this web site you use your IRC nickname and password.

There are more details to come here soon.

Slacknet Communications is currently in talks with The Umbrella Group about purchasing of Slacknet. Please don't be alarmed, this could actually help us because having a larger company own us will help purchase more servers and grow much faster.

You may have seen "Jim" and several other people from Umbrella poking around and lurking on IRC for the past couple of weeks, this is because they're interested to see if buying all of Slacknet's resources would be in their best interest. I honestly would not consider it if it wasn't in our best interest as well.

I will keep you updated, probably through global messages.