type="topic" style="tip"

      id="help-irc">

  <info>

    <link type="guide" xref="more-help"/>

    <desc>Get live support on IRC.</desc>

    <revision pkgversion="3.4.0" date="2012-02-19" status="review"/>

    <credit type="author">

      <name>Baptiste Mille-Mathias</name>

      <email>baptistem@gnome.org</email>

    </credit>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

  </info>

<title>IRC</title>

      IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. It is a real-time multi-user messaging

      system. You can get help and advice on the GNOME IRC server from other

      GNOME users and developers.

      To connect to the GNOME IRC server, use <app>empathy</app> or <app>xchat</app>,

      or use a web interface like <link href="http://chat.mibbit.com/">mibbit</link>.

      To create an IRC account in empathy, see the

      <link href="help:empathy/irc-manage">Empathy documentation</link>.

      The GNOME IRC server is <sys>irc.gnome.org</sys>. You may also see it referred to as the "GIMP network".

      If your computer is properly configured you can click on the link

      <link href="irc://irc.gnome.org/gnome" /> to access the <sys>gnome</sys> channel.

      While IRC is a real-time discussion medium, people tend to not reply immediately, so be patient.

  <note>

    
Please note the

    <link href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/CodeOfConduct">GNOME code of

    conduct</link> applies when you chat on IRC.

  </note>

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