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The '''Open and Free Technology Community''' ('''OFTC''') is an [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] (IRC) [[computer network|network]] which provides collaboration services to members of the [[free software community]] in any part of the world. 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. Their servers are all accessible from the [[Domain name system|___domain name]] [irc://irc.oftc.net irc.oftc.net]. OFTC currently has 32 volunteer staff members, and 21 sponsors<ref>[http://www.oftc.net/oftc/Staff Staff - OFTC]</ref>.

== History ==

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 ruled by a written constitution and the staff elect the officers among each other using a voting mechanism. OFTC became a member project of [[Software in the Public Interest]] (SPI) in July 2002, and SPI became the legal owner of the project's [[Internet ___domain|___domain names]].

== Coding Projects ==

OFTC currently develops 3 projects for its purposes: "oftc-hybrid", ourthe IRC daemon, "oftc-ircservices", ourthe IRC services suite, and "oftc-oftcdns", a geoip[[Geolocation|GeoIP]] dnsDNS responder to handle user distribution across ourthe servers. OFTC uses [[Trac]] for its source browsing and bug tracking. Prospective users of the software can find tarball releases at http://www.oftc.net/releases/. Developers contributing to the code base should read and be familiar with [[Subversion (software)|Subversion]].

== References ==