IRC

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Much OSGeo related communication happens in IRC (Internet Relay Chat), an instant messaging protocol. Lots of general information on IRC is available in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat Wikipedia].

== Clients ==

IRC requires IRC client software. There are a wide variety of clients available. The
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatZilla ChatZilla] client is available for Firefox users on all platforms.

IRC uses a TCP/IP port which is often blocked in environments with strictly managed internet access. In these environments it is still possible to use http based clients such as:

* http://irc.telascience.org/
* <s>http://www.mibbit.com/</s> - BLOCKED BY FREENODE
* http://webchat.freenode.net/

== Channels ==

The primary OSGeo channel is #osgeo on the irc.freenode.net network. Generally speaking you would connect to irc.freenode.net and then issue the "/join #osgeo" command or possibly follow the irc://irc.freenode.net/osgeo URL.

Other channels of interest:

=== Projects ===

* #fdo - [http://fdo.osgeo.org/ Feature Data Objects]
* #featureserver - [http://featureserver.org/ FeatureServer]
* #foss4g2008 - [http://foss4g2008.org FOSS4G 2008] conference organization
* #gdal - [http://www.gdal.org GDAL/OGR] project (as well as FWTools, PROJ.4)
* #geonetwork - [http://geonetwork-opensource.org/ Geonetwork Open Source]
* #geotools - [http://www.geotools.org GeoTools] (also to some extent GeoServer, uDig)
* #grass - [http://grass.osgeo.org/ GRASS GIS]
* #mapbender - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapbender Mapbender]
* #mapguide - [http://mapguide.osgeo.org/ MapGuide Open Source] (and Enterprise)
* #mapserver - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapserver MapServer] and some MapServer based frameworks
* #openlayers - [http://www.osgeo.org/openlayers OpenLayers]
* #ossimplanet - [http://www.osgeo.org/ossim OSSIM] project
* #postgis - [http://postgis.net/ PostGIS]
* #qgis - [http://www.qgis.org/ Quantum GIS]
* #drupal-geo - [http://groups.drupal.org/location-and-mapping Drupal GEO]
* #osgeolive - [[Live GIS Disc]]

=== Local Chapters ===

* #osgeo-es - Capítulo Local de la comunidad [[Español|hispano-hablante]]
* #osgeo-fr - [[Francophone OSGeo Chapter]]
* #gfoss - [[Italiano|Italian language]] OSGeo Chapter
* #osgeo-phl - [[Philadelphia|Philadelphia area]] OSGeo Chapter
* #fossgis - [[D-A-CH|German language]] OSGeo chapter ([http://logs.qgis.org/fossgis logs])
* [irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pt #osgeo-pt] - [[Portugal]] OSGeo Chapter (use [http://webchat.freenode.net webchat] se não tiver um cliente IRC, e preencha o nome e o canal '''#osgeo-pt''')
* #osgeo-qc - [[Quebec| Quebec OSGeo Chapter]]
* #cugos - [[Cascadia|Cascadia Users of Geospatial Open Source]]
* #osgeo-pdx [[PDX-OSGEO|Portland Chapter]]

=== Other ===
* #geojson
* #kml
* #moss4g

== Etiquette ==

* Don't ask to ask, just go ahead and ask your question.
* Don't paste large chunks of text into IRC channels. If you want to present a code or configuration file snippet to others to look at use a "pasting service" like http://codepad.org/ or http://osgeo.pastebin.com/ to host the snippet, and then paste the url to it into the IRC channel.
* If you want the attention of a particular person, include their nick in the message and they will generally be alerted (flashed, bell rung, etc).
* Give folks a while to respond. They are usually multi-tasking and might not look at IRC for a while.
* If an active conversation is going on, wait for a lull to raise a different topic (a minute of inactivity for instance)

== Logs ==

Many popular OSGeo related channels are logged. The #osgeo channel logs are at:

http://irclogs.geoapt.com//osgeo

Other logs may also be found under:

http://irclogs.geoapt.com//<add project name>

Some channels (ie. #mapserver and #osgeo) are also logged on IRSeek (http://www.irseek.com), an IRC search engine.

== See also ==

* [[How to use irc fr]]

* Test

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