Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
At Global Voices we don't have an office, a water cooler, or a local bar. But we do have our own chat room. This is where we hold meetings regularly.
Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, is a protocol for chatting over the internet. You access an IRC room through a client by telling it the server and room you want to join.
The Global Voices IRC Server is:
irc.freenode.net
The Room is named
#globalvoices
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IRC Chat in a web browser
You can log into the Global Voices IRC room in your browser window by accessing http://webchat.freenode.net
Where is says "Nickname" write your nickname, where it says "Channel" write #globalvoices
Click Connect! That's it.
ChatZilla the Firefox Extension
If you use Firefox, you can use the chat extension called ChatZilla. Activate Chatzilla and click on the URL [1] to take you directly to the GlobalVoices IRC channel and that URL [2] for GVmena IRC channel.
IRC Client Applications
Some people may prefer to access the chatroom via client applications that may offer more options for display and archiving.
- Pidgin (Multiple platforms)
- bitchx (Multiple platforms)
- Irssi (Multiple platforms)
- XChat (Unix/Linux/Windows)
- KSirc (KDE in Linux)
- Konversation (KDE in Linux)
- Kopete (KDE in Linux)
- Colloquy (Mac OS X)
- Conversation (Mac OS X)
- HydraIRC (Windows)
- mIRC (Windows)
- Klient (Windows)
