Contents

  1. IRC is where People Talk about GNOME
  2. IRC Applications
  3. GNOME IRC Server
  4. List of IRC Channels
    1. GNOME Community & Core Experience
    2. GNOME Servers & GNOME Web
    3. GNOME Internet Applications
    4. GNOME File Browser, Office & Graphics
    5. GNOME Software Development
    6. Local Groups for Help in Other Languages
    7. Other Help (with GNOME aware people)
    8. See Also

IRC is where People Talk about GNOME

IRC is one of the main communication channels of the GNOME community. You can freely join a channel that suits your interests if you are a user looking for help, a developer wanting to contribute, or anybody who wants to help with the GNOME project. This page is just a sample list of the channels that are out there. If you are interested in a particular project, find its wiki page and it most likely will have the information about its IRC channel.

Lurking is perfectly fine on IRC. Don't hesitate to join an IRC channel. The etiquette of IRC is such that you don't even need to say "hi" when you join and you can lurk in the channel for as long as you'd like unless you have a specific question or want to share your view in a discussion. So just joining a channel is pretty non-committal.

It's not you, it's the IRC channel. Don't be put off if no one answers your question. It probably means no one knows the answer and no one feels responsible to say that they don't. It's possible that the one person who would know the answer is not online or is busy. Stick around for a while. Get a sense of the channel's activity. Try asking your question when the channel seems livelier. In the meantime, search Bugzilla and the web an extra time.

IRC Applications

To use IRC you need an IRC client. The following GNOME applications provide IRC functionality:

Alternatively, you can connect to IRC from a browser. Users connecting though web proxies like KiwiIRC and Mibbit might be banned in some channels, because these allow joining anonymously, and have enabled channel spammers in the past. If you are getting a message that you are banned from joining, try a different way of joining. Use one of the following options to join from your browser:

  • IRCCloud web IRC client - preferred because it requires a sign-up and is less likely to be used by spammers

  • KiwiIRC web proxy IRC client

  • Mibbit web proxy IRC chat

  • Chatzilla Firefox Add-on

  • Or, click on a link to a channel of interest listed below, then select Mibbit. Once you are on the webpage, choose a nick name (you may wish to leave the default nick), and click 'go'. This will immediately connect you to your channel.

GNOME IRC Server

IRC Server: irc.gnome.org - also known as GIMPNet, which is the name under which you'll find it in IRC applications' network lists (standard port is 6667)

List of IRC Channels

If not stated otherwise all channels mentioned here are on irc.gnome.org server. This server is also knows as GIMPNet, which is the name under which you'll find it in IRC applications' network lists.

GNOME Community & Core Experience

GNOME Servers & GNOME Web

  • #webhackers - Some GNOME webhackers in there...

  • #sysadmin - The channel for the official GNOME servers (most users wont need to go here)

GNOME Internet Applications

  • #epiphany - Channel for the Epiphany web browser

  • #evolution - Evolution help channel

  • #xchat-gnome - Help/development for the xchat-gnome IRC client (chat.freenode.net)

  • #galeon - Help channel for the Galeon browser project

  • #ekiga- Help channel for Ekiga formerly the GnomeMeeting H.323 videoconferencing/VOIP application

  • #tinymail- Help channel for Tinymail

  • #empathy - Help channel for Empathy

  • #smuxi - Help channel for the Smuxi IRC client (irc.oftc.net)

GNOME File Browser, Office & Graphics

GNOME Software Development

  • #gtk+ - Development of, and with, GTK+

  • #c++ - Development of, and with, the gtkmm and gnomemm C++ bindings

  • #devel-apps - Development of the Anjuta IDE, devhelp, glade and other devel apps

  • #anjuta - Talk about Anjuta

  • #glade3- Talk about Glade user interface designer

  • #python - Development of, and with python bindings, you can also ask general python questions here

  • #ruby-gnome2 - Development of, and with Ruby GNOME bindings, you can also ask general Ruby questions here

  • #gtk-perl - Development of, and with, the gtk2-perl (http://gtk2-perl.sf.net/) group of Perl modules

  • #vala - Development of, and with, Vala

  • #win32 - Development of the gnome platform for Windows

  • #introspection - Development of the GObjectIntrospection framework

  • #kiwi - Development of the python kiwi framework

  • #gtkdoc - Development of gtk-doc API documentation tool

  • #clutter - Development of, and with, Clutter

  • #gnome-university - GnomeUniversity is an effort to build a set of course materials and an encouraging environment for new and existing GNOME members to develop new skills.

Local Groups for Help in Other Languages

Other Help (with GNOME aware people)

  • #penguins - Lots of friendly expert help (used to be #linuxxchange) (irc.freenode.net)

  • #debian-gnome - Official Debian GNOME channel (used to be #gnome-debian) (irc.oftc.net)

  • #gnome - Unofficial GNOME help channel on freenode. (irc.freenode.net)

See Also

Community/GettingInTouch/IRC (last edited 2014-10-09 17:14:32 by MarinaZ)