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IRC stands for ''Internet Relay Chat'' and is one of the primary means of synchronous communication between people working on an open source project. It's a text-based chat system where clients connect to one or more servers, and the servers relay messages between themselves (hence the name). Communication is done in ''channels'' which individual users join, and users are identified by ''nicks'' (nicknames). In addition to human users, various ''services'' and ''bots'' (robots -- programs) are present in many channels.
There are two several IRC networks used by the Open Source communities in which Seneca participates:
* The Freenode network is used by Fedora, X.org, OpenOffice.org, and many other open source projects. For information about the Freenode IRC network, see http://freenode.net/. Freenode's IRC servers are accessible at irc://irc.freenode.net
* Moznet is Mozilla's IRC network. For information about Moznet, see http://irc.mozilla.org. Mozilla's IRC server is irc://moznet (irc.mozilla.org)* The Open and Free Technology Community is a network used by the gcc, django, debian, libvirt, and other communities.For information about OFTC, see http://www.oftc.net/. OFTC's IRC servers are accessible at irc://irc.oftc.net
==Basic Usage==