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[Aidan Wilson]

If you're looking to start a web-based chatroom/forum, one avenue you 
might persue is Freenode.net, an open-access server that supports 
internet relay chat (irc) protocol. Of course there are many /many/ irc 
servers on the net, but freenode has a large community of people 
dedicated to open source and open access projects.

If you want to integrate irc with a website, I believe it's easy enough 
to download and install a java or flash-based website-dependent chat 
client, which are exceedingly easy to use. But the irc servers will also 
allow non-web-based chat clients, like mIRC, xchat, etc.

Incidentally, freenode's linguistics room (#linguistics) is quite a 
buzzing place, though it is heavily stacked with indo-europeanists and 
other european-based people, and more representation from American 
languages would be most welcome (same goes for Australian languages).

-Aidan


Ted Moomaw wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>  
> I work at the Omak language and cultural preservation program for the 
> Colville confederated tribes.  My question is that I would like to 
> start a website for online lessons and also a place to chat using our 
> unicode font.  Do you know of anyone who has started a language chat 
> forum that uses unicode, the font we use is called lucida sans 
> unicode.  I have a few friends that read and write in our lang. and I 
> think many others would soon catch on w/ such a place to visit 
> online.  I was also thinking it would be nice to have an interactive 
> dictionary on the same site.
>  
> There has recently been added a website called 
> oneheartforthepeople.com it is a locally started website for general 
> interest locally,  I started an okanogan language group on there, and 
> on my home computer I can perfectly read everyones font, but at my 
> work computer where we almost exclusively use unicode I cannot read 
> the font from that site, also many others are unable to correctly 
> recieve the font.  If you know of anyone I might contact who has 
> started a site that is unicode supported would you please help.
>  
>  
> way̓ limlmt,
>  
> xʷistsmx̌ikn
> Ted Moomaw
>  

-- 
Aidan Wilson

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