Tolkien Gateway:Meetings

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Tolkien Gateway: Meetings are online monthly meetings held on the first Sunday of every month at 8pm UTC. The meeting takes place in the #Wiki channel of Tolkien Gateway's IRC network. The specific time of each meeting for your time zone is available on each meeting page (see links below). Before each meeting users can can put forward their ideas for discussion by using the talk page. In addition, users should note down their intention to attend using the same talk page. Transcripts for most meetings are available for non-attendees to read.

Upcoming Meetings

Previous Meetings

Meeting Date Talk Page Transcript? Notes
#1 17 August 2008 Here Yes N/A
#2 24 August 2008 Here Yes N/A
#3 31 August 2008 Here Yes N/A
#4 7 September 2008 Here Yes N/A
#5 14 September 2008 Here No N/A
#6 21 September 2008 Here No N/A
#7 28 September 2008 Here Yes N/A
5 October 2008 Here No Cancelled
#8 12 October 2008 Here Yes N/A
#9 19 October 2008 Here No N/A
#10 26 October 2008 Here No N/A
2 November 2008 N/A No Cancelled
9 November 2008 Here No Cancelled
16 November 2008 N/A No Cancelled
23 November 2008 Here No Cancelled
#11 5 April 2009 Here No N/A
13 April 2009 Here No Cancelled
#12 27 June 2010 Here Yes N/A
25 July 2010 Here No Cancelled
#13 1 August 2010 Here Yes N/A
#14 5 September 2010 Here Yes N/A
#15 3 October 2010 Here Yes N/A
7 November 2010 N/A No Cancelled
#16 5 December 2010 Here Yes N/A
#17 2 January 2011 Here Yes N/A
#18 6 February 2011 Here Yes N/A
#19 6 March 2011‎ Here Yes N/A
#20 3 April 2011‎ Here Yes N/A
#21 1 May 2011‎ Here Yes N/A
#22 5 June 2011‎ Here Yes N/A
#23 3 July 2011‎ Here Yes N/A
#24 31 July 2011 Here Yes Specially convened meeting
#25 7 August 2011 Here Yes N/A
#26 4 September 2011 Here Yes N/A
2 October 2011 Here No Cancelled
6 November 2011 Here No Cancelled
#27 13 November 2011 Here Yes N/A
#28 4 December 2011 Here Yes N/A
#29 8 January 2012 Here Yes N/A
#30 5 February 2012 Here Yes N/A
#31 4 March 2012 Here Yes N/A
#32 1 April 2012 Here Yes N/A
6 May 2012 Here No Cancelled
3 June 2012 N/A No Cancelled
#33 1 July 2012 Here Yes N/A
#34 5 August 2012 Here Yes N/A
#35 2 September 2012 Here Yes N/A

Connecting

Main article: Tolkien Gateway:Chat

To join the meetings, you will need to use an IRC client to access the correct server and channels. To do this, you can use an IRC client, or you can access it using the browser-based client, Mibbit:

There is a variety of different IRC clients available for you to use, more prominent ones include:

  • Chatzilla - As an add-on to Firefox.
  • XChat - Free, stand-alone application.
  • IceChat - Free, stand-alone application.
  • Bersirc - Free, stand-alone application.
  • mIRC - Shareware.
  • Colloquy - For Mac users.

After you have installed the IRC Client, you will need to set it up to access Tolkien Gateway IRC channels; the following information should be useful:

  • Server: irc.tolkiengateway.net
  • Port: 6667
  • Channel: #Wiki