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While all official development takes place on the mailing lists and the Savannah trackers, 
a lot of discussions are had on IRC as well. Everybody is welcome to join and follow these channels, but please 
respect the below guidelines if you want to participate.

# Asking Questions
 
[[!inline pages=asking_questions raw=yes feeds=no]]

# Staying On-Topic

Please try to stay on topic.

* emacs vs. vi **is not** on topic
* If it is appropriate for a **slashdot comment**, it's **not appropriate**
  here
* why GNU sucks is **off-topic**
* when the next release of the Hurd will be **is inappropriate**
* you should not advocate your favorite **GNU/Linux** ditribution

# Pasting Logs

Sometimes providing a log or some other excerpt of text can
help solve a problem or answer a question.  **Do not** paste
the log in the channel itself.  Instead use a
[paste bin](http://paste.debian.net).

# Rich Text

Don't use it.  Don't use colors.  Don't use bold.  Don't use emphasis.

# Greeting

If you never contribute to the discussion, there is no need
to always greet the channel when you enter and before leave.


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# Regular Meetings

Starting in early 2008, there have been regular IRC meetings held between the
(now former) [[community/GSoC]] students and their mentors.  These continue to
take place even that the [[Google_Summer_of_Code_2008|community/gsoc/2008]] is
over, and still take place, **every Friday at 19:00 UTC in the `#hurd`
channel**.  Of course, the meetings are not only for (former) GSoC students and
mentors, but open to any interested party.  So, everyone, take your chance to
chat with GNU Hurd developers!


# Channels

All Hurd IRC channels are hosted on [Freenode.net](http://freenode.net/). 

* #hurd - The official Hurd IRC channel. Some of the Hurd developers and users hang out there, and discussions about GNU Hurd, GNU/Hurd and 
Debian GNU/Hurd are had there.

Local user channels include:

* #hurd-it - Italian
* #hurd-es - Spanish
* #hurdfr  - French
* #hurd-de - German
* #hurd.in - Indian regional languages(but primarily English)

# Channel logs

* [#hurd logs](http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/)


# Related

  * [[Contact_us]].