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| <tt>#olpcph</tt> || [[OLPC Philippines|Philippines]] - '''[irc://irc.oftc.net/olpc-philippines]''' '''Note:''' Hosted @ irc.freenode.net |
| <tt>#olpcph</tt> || [[OLPC Philippines|Philippines]] - '''[irc://irc.oftc.net/olpc-philippines]''' '''Note:''' Hosted @ irc.freenode.net |
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Wikipedia
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication and data transfers via private message.
IRC client software is available for virtually every computer operating system.
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irc.freenode.net
The OLPC Community uses a series of channels in the irc.freenode.net network. Check {{User irc}} to see how to register your participation in the IRC channels within the wiki, and to find the category where users are registered.
Channels
Primary: | |
#olpc | Contact point for all things olpc, and the core hardware development team's own channel. Picture a room where the knowledgeable core people are hard at work. It is a good place for authoritative answers, but people may be out, or too busy to respond, or don't want interruptions at the moment. #olpc-content is a good place to ask questions first. |
#sugar | Sugar development. |
#olpc-content | content related matters and general discussion. |
#schoolserver | Note: irc.oftc.net |
#olpc-meeting | OLPC meeting, developer's meeting room |
#olpc-help | Help channel |
Secondary channels — Usually following #olpc-xx (where xx is a language code), or #olpc-country. | |
Secondary by language used: | |
#olpc-es | Spanish language channel. Mostly OLPC Spanish America. |
Secondary by country interest: | |
#olpc-peru | Peru and OLPC Spanish America subjects (most likely to be in Spanish) |
#olpc-brasil | Brazil (note the spelling with the 's' - português) |
#olpc-co | Colombia |
#olpc-ko | Korea |
#olpc-nl | the Netherlands |
#olpcph | Philippines - [1] Note: Hosted @ irc.freenode.net |
#olpc-philippines | Philippines - [2] Note: Hosted @ irc.oftc.net |
#olpc-ro | Romania |
#olpc-za | South Africa |
other channels
Experimental:
- #olpc-wiki — geared towards issues or subjects relative to the wiki itself (Created around 20 June.)
- #olpc-l10n — has Localization as its focus (Created around 20 June.) — dropped in october due to low traffic and overlap with #olpc-content
Inactive:
- #OLPC-Dictionary — related to the omegawiki.org children's dictionary for the olpc
- #tam_tam — TamTam (Inactive?)
- #olpc-talk — If #olpc is a room where people are working, then #olpc-talk is the hallway where conversation can be moved when it gets noisy or random, or folks just want focus on work. (Created 2007-06-04. Didn't draw much traffic. #olpc-content remains the main discussion venue. If/when that get's too noisy, #olpc-talk can be resurrected.)
irc.oftc.net
- #schoolserver — dedicated to the School server
- #debian-olpc — dedicated to porting Debian to the XO
How to use irc channels
- If you don't know what IRC is, now is a good time to find out. It stands for Internet Relay Chat, and is basically... a chatroom. Some helpful resources are here, here, and especially this tutorial, which also includes basic commands.
- Learn about IRC etiquette. Some good reads are here, here, and here.
- Review the software client list. Pick one, download, install. If you haven't used IRC before, a good choice is Xchat, which works on both Linux and Windows; Linuxchix has a good tutorial.
- Connect to to one or more of the above mentioned channels, and join us! (To do this, choose irc.freenode.net as your server, and then /join a channel... if you're new to IRC, the #olpc-content channel is probably the place you want to go first).
- Note OLPC growing pains.
Using IRC on your XO
See XoIRC.