History of the BIRCF Project

In early October 1994 there was a discussion on the Bahá'í-Discuss mailing list that lead to the formation of a small group of Bahá'ís that wanted to have Bahá'í firesides on IRC. The group was headed by Dominic Burton (dburton@tyrell.net)

In mid October Justin Nevill (jinevill@Bounty.BCCA.Org) posted a message to the Bahá'í-Announce mailing list asking for help in starting Bahá'í Firesides on IRC. Justin was unaware of the current IRC fireside effort headed by Dominic. Justin got a lot of response to his post, including notification of the project already underway.

On October 17th Dominic was no longer able to head up the Project, after a ytalk discussion with Justin, the two decided that Justin would now head up the Project. Dominic has stayed active in the BIRCF project and Justin is still the primary coordinator.

Month/Day/Year: Event:
10/14/94 First Friday BIRCF.
10/17/94 First Monday BIRCF.
10/17/94 Cancellation of Friday BIRCFs due to lack of participantion.
10/28/94 First large scale advertising. On the soc.culture.singapore newsgroup by Barry Raveendran Greene.
11/29/94 Selam Ahderom becomes the assistant coordinator.
12/01/94 Mass advertising on the newsgroup soc.religion.bahai began.

Month/Day/Year:	Event:
10/14/94	First Friday BIRCF.
10/17/94	First Monday BIRCF.
10/17/94	Cancellation of Friday BIRCFs due to lack of participantion.
10/28/94	First large scale advertising. On the soc.culture.singapore newsgroup by Barry Raveendran Greene.
11/29/94	Selam Ahderom becomes the assistant coordinator.
12/01/94	Mass advertising on the newsgroup soc.religion.bahai began.