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The '''Open and Free Technology Community''' ('''OFTC''') is an [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] [[computer network|network]] which is particularly popular with the [[free software community]].

The OFTC was founded in late [[2001]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.advogato.org/proj/OFTC/ | accessdate=2007-10-03 | title=Advogato: Project info for OFTC}}</ref>, by and large by people who were previously working on [[freenode]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/05/02/the-liberation-of-freenode-part-3/ | accessdate=2007-10-03 | title=The Liberation of Freenode, Part 3}}</ref> 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]] in [[July_2002|July 2002]], and [[Software_in_the_Public_Interest|SPI]] became the legal owner of the project's [[Internet ___domain]]s.

The IRC network itself runs the oftc-ircd software, which is a branch (patchset) of [[IRCD-Hybrid]] version 7. Notably, it supports [[Transport Layer Security|SSL]] and [[IPv6]] connections. The network also runs the [[IRC services]] NickServ and ChanServ, among others.

==Notable chat rooms==

* [httpirc://wwwirc.debianoftc.orgnet/support#ircdebian #debian] : official community-supported IRC channel for [[Debian]]

* [httpirc://wwwirc.kernelnewbiesoftc.orgnet/IRCkernelnewbies #kernelnewbies] : support channel for beginning [[Linux kernel]] programmers

* [irc://irc.oftc.net/tor #tor] : official [[Tor (anonymity network)]] channel

* [irc://irc.oftc.net/vserver #vserver] : [[Linux-vserver|Linux vserver]] Virtual private server implementation channel

== References ==

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== External links ==

* [http://www.oftc.net/ www.oftc.net] - official website.

* [irc://irc.oftc.net/ irc.oftc.net] - direct link to IRC

* [http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/details.php.en?net=OFTC&submenu=weeks Recent OFTC IRC statistics @ irc.netsplit.de]