The Open and Free Technology Community (OFTC) is an IRC network which is particularly popular with the free software community.
The OFTC was founded in late 2001, by and large by people who were previously working on freenode. 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 SPI became the legal owner of the project's Internet domains.
The IRC network itself runs the oftc-ircd software, which is a branch (patchset) of ircd-hybrid version 7. Notably, it supports SSL and IPv6 connections.
Notable chat rooms
- #debian: official community-supported IRC channel for Debian.
- #kernelnewbies: support channel for beginning Linux kernel programmers.
- #offtopic - Channel for off-topic chat.
- #tor: official Tor channel. Tor is a low latency anonymity network.
- #openttd - Channel for the opensource game OpenTTD.
External links
- oftc.net - official website.
- irc.oftc.net - direct link to IRC
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