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==Introduction==
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 forward messages between themselves. Communication is done in ''channels'' which individual users join (and , and users are identified by ''nicks'' (nicknames). In addition to human users, various ''services'' and ''bots'' (robots -- programs) are present in many channels .
* 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
* For information about Mozilla's IRC server see http://irc.mozilla.org. Mozilla's IRC server is irc://moznet (irc.mozilla.org).
==Basic Usage==
