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Why not just all jump into #hackernews? What does hackers mean again? Who's definition? If you're actually looking for HN people, why don't we just participate on #hackernews on freenode.
My god, it's full of avatars!
look at irc channel of different hackerspace ... as that one : http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/London_Hackspace
The biggest problem with this question is the breadth of the term 'hacker'. Hackers tend to clump into whatever projects they are currently working on. Try starting off in places like #ubuntu and other projects (that interest you!) that are very newbie friendly. Master a topic and try helping other newbies with that topic. It takes time but my personal experience is the best way to be involved in the 'hacker' culture…
Why not just all jump into #hackernews? What does hackers mean again? Who's definition? If you're actually looking for HN people, why don't we just participate on #hackernews on freenode.
I just logged onto #hackernews on freenode. My god, it's full of avatars!
Slack [0] is a piece of beauty for community/team communication. I don't if there is already a HN channel on it. [0] https://www.slack.com/
The biggest problem with this question is the breadth of the term 'hacker'. Hackers tend to clump into whatever projects they are currently working on. Try starting off in places like #ubuntu and other projects (that interest you!) that are very newbie friendly. Master a topic and try helping other newbies with that topic. It takes time but my personal experience is the best way to be involved in the 'hacker' culture…
But the whole point is to have a general place with lots of people where all things hacker could be talked about, I spend some time on topic-specific IRC channels but I don't want to talk about python or arch all day, I wanted a channel that was about the community