[Members] Google Summer of Code 2014 - Should the XSF Apply?

[Philipp Hancke]

>> How is letting people join freenode chatrooms from their XMPP client
>> different from an XMPP transport like spectrum?
>>
>>
> Hopefully no real difference, other than it's an officially sanctioned and
> provided service, so it ought to be considerably lower friction.

Right. So as a first step, freenode could run an irc-transport hooked up 
to a server that does S2S. The main problem about transport is that 
operators get mad at you...