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* <tt>#olpc</tt> &mdash; 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.
* <tt>#olpc</tt> &mdash; 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.
* <tt>#sugar</tt> &mdash; [[Sugar]] development.
* <tt>#sugar</tt> &mdash; [[Sugar]] development.
* <tt>#olpc-content</tt> &mdash; [[content]] related matters and discussion.
* <tt>#olpc-content</tt> &mdash; [[content]] related matters and general discussion.


Smaller: <tt>#olpc-''xx''</tt> (where ''xx'' is a [[Languages|language code]]), and <tt>#olpc-''[[Countries|country]]''</tt>.
Smaller: <tt>#olpc-''xx''</tt> (where ''xx'' is a [[Languages|language code]]), and <tt>#olpc-''[[Countries|country]]''</tt>.

Revision as of 00:35, 26 June 2007

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 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

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.
  • #sugarSugar development.
  • #olpc-contentcontent related matters and general discussion.

Smaller: #olpc-xx (where xx is a language code), and #olpc-country.

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.)

Inactive:

  • #OLPC-Dictionary — related to the omegawiki.org children's dictionary for the olpc
  • #tam_tamTamTam (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.)