IRC

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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 was created by Jarkko "WiZ" Oikarinen in late August 1988 to replace a program called MUT (MultiUser talk) on a BBS called OuluBox in Finland. Oikarinen found inspiration in a chat system known as Bitnet Relay, which operated on the BITNET.

IRC gained prominence when it was used to report on the Soviet coup attempt of 1991 throughout a media blackout. It was previously used in a similar fashion by Kuwaitis during the Iraqi invasion. Relevant logs are available from ibiblio archive.

IRC client software is available for virtually every computer operating system.

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The OLPC Community uses a series of channels in the irc.freenode.net network.

Channels

• #olpc — general contact point for all things olpc

  While a general contact point, it does not currently seem a place for general discussion. Its current primary role seems to be support of the core olpc team, and other use appears brief and discouraged. Understandably - clutter would interfere with that role. There does not currently appear to be a channel for general community formation (aka chatting) and discussion. #olpc-content is sometimes used, but has a much smaller population. This seems a significant problem, but I'm unclear on how to address it. MitchellNCharity 08:15, 4 June 2007 (EDT)

• #olpc-content — content related matters
• #sugar — Sugar related matters
• #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 - may or may not catch on)

Also:

• #olpc-xx (where xx is a language code), and #olpc-country.
• #olpc-es — Spanish language channel. Mostly OLPC Spanish America.
• #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-ro — OLPC Romania

And:

• #OLPC-Dictionary — related to the omegawiki.org children's dictionary for the olpc
• #tam_tam — TamTam (Inactive?)
  • Somebody help me! Flatts is gonna kick my butt! —SpongeBob 14:41, 5 June 2007 (EDT)