Open and Free Technology Community: Difference between revisions

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| founded_on = [[2001]]

| located_in = [[Asia]]<br />[[Australia]]<br />[[Europe]]<br />[[United States]]

| executive_board = weasel, [[Network Operationsoperations Centercenter|NOC Chair]]<br />cdlu, [[Ombudsman]]<br />migus, [[Advisor]]<br />weasel, [[Routing]]<br /> Ganneff, [[Routing]]

| website_url = [http://www.oftc.net www.oftc.net]

| primary_dns = [irc://irc.oftc.net irc.oftc.net]

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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, 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 [[IRCInternet Relay Chat services]] NickServ and ChanServ, among others.

==Notable chat rooms==