OFTC

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The Open and Free Technology Community aims to provide stable and effective collaboration services to members of the community in any part of the world, while closely listening to their needs and desires.

OFTC was founded at the end of 2001 by a group of experienced members of the Open Source and Free Software communities aiming to provide these communities with better communication, development, and support infrastructure.

OFTC is a member project of Software in the Public Interest, a non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software.

 

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Please feel free to join OFTC by pointing your IRC Client to one of the following:

•irc://irc.oftc.net:6667

•irc://irc6.oftc.net:6667 for IPV6 connections

•SSL is enabled on all servers, the port for connecting is 6697. If you're unable to connect via the default ports please use one of the alternate ports: for normal unencrypted connections use ports 6668-6670 or port 7000, for SSL encrypted connections use port 9999.

We support SSL on all our servers. The certs are signed, indirectly, by SPI's certification authority. You can get the root certificate at the SPI website under http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/spi-cacert.crt, and if you care you can verify it using the pgp-signed fingerprints. Alternatively, install a certificate collection (ca-certificates or similar names are common) that includes it.

 

http://www.oftc.net/oftc/