IRC Communication

OpenOffice.org project uses IRC for direct / immediate online communication:

IRC Network: Freenode (irc.freenode.net)

#users.openoffice.org	User channel, please use this for questions related to OOo usage
#OpenOffice.org	General channel (most developers)
#specs.openoffice.org	Specifications and development processes
#qa.openoffice.org	QA channel
#ooo-api (formerly api.openoffice.org)	API channel (related to API programming, SDK, developer documentation)
#chart2.openoffice.org	Chart2 channel (related to the chart2 module, the re-implementation of the Chart)
#go-oo	Heretical ooo-build / OO.o channel
#ooonlc	Native Language Talk Room
#debian-oo	Debian OO.o packaging channel
#openoffice.org-de	German channel
#openoffice.org-it	Italian channel
#openoffice.org-pl	Polish channel
#cs.openoffice.org	Czech channel
#openoffice.et	Estonian channel
#fr.openoffice.org	Francophone channel
#nl.openoffice.org	Dutch channel
#OOoES	Spanish Channel
#broffice.org	Brazilian Channel
#dba.openoffice.org-de	Germanophone channel to help with the Base-Modul of OpenOffice.org
#ooo_macport	Native Mac OSX (Aqua) port of OpenOffice.org Developer channel
#ooo-ext	Extensions channel

IRC info

• New to IRC look here
• Make sure you register your nick with freenode, just follow the instructions
• If you like X-Chat but have to use windows sometimes, here is a free win32 version
• A client for Mac OS X is Colloquy
• To create a new channel:

 /join #new-channel-oo
 /msg chanserv register #new-channel-oo [password]
 /msg chanserv access #new-channel-oo add [who_should_autoop_there_1] [level]
 /msg chanserv access #new-channel-oo add [who_should_autoop_there_2_and_more] [level]
 /msg chanserv set #new-channel-oo guard on
 /msg chanserv level #new-channel set autoop [level-for-autoop]

Who is Whom ?

A list of people & accounts is available: DomainDeveloper