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Open and Free Technology Community

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Template:Infobox irc 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[1], by and large by people who were previously working on freenode.[2] 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. The network also runs the Internet Relay Chat services NickServ and ChanServ, among others.


References

  1. ^ "Advogato: Project info for OFTC". Retrieved 2007-10-03.
  2. ^ "The Liberation of Freenode, Part 3". Retrieved 2007-10-03.
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