IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a form of synchronous text-based communication used by many Open Source projects.

The #teachingopensource channel on the Freenode IRC network is a place to discuss the challenges of teaching Open Source live with others around the world.

IRC Resources

• IRC (Wikipedia)
• Getting started with IRC (Seneca wiki)
• Dictionary of common IRC abbreviations
• Discussion of some common DOs and Don'ts with respect to Mozilla's IRC culture (also useful for other projects).
• info on Zodbot in channel

IRC Meetings

The #teachingopensource channel is available 24x7 for discussions. At certain times, we'll use the channel to hold IRC meetings. Our meetings are archived by the Zodbot IRC bot. Logs for meetings held in #teachingopensource are archived here.