Chatting live on the Internet is easy! Keep reading and follow the next procedure:
in 10 minutes you can discuss real-time with other scouts from all over the word.

STAGE 1 - Download
Get the mIRC client program used for chatting under Windows 95/98/2000/NT or 3.1x from our software page and save it on to your computer. Download ircle from http://www.ircle.com if you use a Macintosh. Its is the counterpart of mIRC for MacOS. Users of Unix/Linux/freeBSD can simply take ircII for chatting on the system-console or from xterm.	How does it work ?
	Live chatting is like if you were talking on the phone, but instead of using your voice, you work with your fingers, on a "chat channel". The technical details behind this will be explained later.
	To discuss with others on the Internet, you need to connect to a server: a larger computer who distributes what people write to all other participants. The server also forwards the messages to other servers, so that more people can see and chat with each other. Such a group of servers is called a "network". The program you use to connect to the server is called an "IRC client". There are several dozen clients available, we've selected three popular ones for you.

STAGE 2 - Installation
Double click on the installation program icon first.
	The window on the left side appears on the screen. Choose the options according to the the picture and press the "Install" button. The automatic installation takes only a few minutes
When you see the message above on the screen, the installation procedure is completed. Congratulations and go over to STAGE 3.

STAGE 3 - Ready, set and go!
Start the mIRC program from the start menu. When you see the "About this program" dialog box on the screen, press anywhere on the screen, exept on a button, to continue.
	You see on the screen the Options window : if it's not the case, press the button on the toolbar. Fill in the "Full Name" and "Nickname" informations like you can see on the left picture. Full name is your name, you must enter it if you want to connect to an IRC server. You must enter again your E-mail address. Nickname is the name people will see and call you on the chat.

Now press the "Add" button to enter the details about the server you're going to connect to. The next window appears on the screen. Complete the first three lines like you can see on this right picture. Instead of "chat.scoutlink.net" enter the name of the closest server from the IRC Server List. When you're ready to continue, press the "Add" and the "Connect to IRC server!" buttons.

List of ScoutLinks main channels
Channel	Description
#irc_help	Join this channel if you have questions on IRC, ScoutLink or JOTI in general
#jambo	This is the channel you will join first during JOTI. From there you will be directed to either an open JOTI channel or an open country channel. Once you have been directed to an open channel, please leave #jambo.
#joti	Special english-speaking channel(s) for chatting and making contacts during the weekend
#espanol	main spanish-speaking channel
#deutsch	main german-speaking channel>
#francais	main french-speaking channel
#dutch	main dutch-speaking channel
#chinese	main channel for users with chinese (BIG5) character sets

The last window is used to join a channel. Each channel corresponds to a specific language or theme. Press OK to close this dialog box. When you press the "List channels" button (see the next table, fourth button), the "List Channels" window appears on the screen. When you press the "Get list" button, the channel's list appears in a new window. Double click on one of the listed channels to join it.

A typical channel window looks like this.
If you have reached it, you are ready to chat.

The four buttons you will use most frequently
	Connect to the server
	Option (to connect to an other server)
	Enter a channel (manual)
	List on screen the existing channel's

Have a great JOTI!

Source: Codépie du Béarn - Scouts de France
Suggestions: guillaume.poncon@wanadoo.fr
Modified for joti.org: stefan.melcher@joti.org

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