The title of this article should be freenode. The initial letter is capitalized due to technical restrictions.

freenode, formerly known as Open Projects Network, is an IRC network which is particularly popular with free and open source software users and programmers. It is the official network of many major free software projects, such as the GNU project [1]. freenode reports over 30,000 simultaneous connections at weekly peak. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. ... QuakeNet is the largest IRC network in the world, with its average number of users well over 200,000 every day and over 180,000 channels. ... The Undernet is one of the largest IRC networks. ... IRCnet is one of the largest IRC networks. ... EFnet or Eris Free network (also written EFNet) is a major IRC network, with over 100,000 users. ... DALnet is an Internet relay chat (IRC) network founded in July 1994 by members of the EFNet #startrek channel. ... GameSurge is a popular Internet Relay Chat network devoted to the online multiplayer gaming community. ... // About Rizon Rizon is a large IRC network, popular perhaps due to the allowance of channels for sharing warez and other copyrighted material for free. ... Aitvaras is a popular Lithuanian IRC network. ... AbleNET is an IRC network. ... AfterNET is an IRC network and was founded in September 1996. ... AustNet or austnet is an IRC network which aims to provide a friendly and secure alternative to other IRC networks such as DALnet and EFNet. ... Blitzed is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network founded on October 31st, 2000 in response to the collapse of WreckedNet. ... ChatAutism is an IRC network founded in 2004 as a sister project of Aspies For Freedom. ... DeltaAnime (sometimes referred to as DAnet) is an anime and Ragnarok Online oriented IRC Network, web host and Bit-torrenttracker. ... EnterTheGame is an Internet Relay Chat network themed around computer games. ... EsperNet, often referred to as Esper. ... GameRadius is an Internet Relay Chat network that was formed in January 2005 by the former administrators of the ProGamePlayer IRC network after ProGamePlayers merger with GameSurge was deemed unsatisfactory. ... // History IRCHighway is a large IRC-network with over 10,000 users connected every day. ... LinkNet is a secure IRC-network that support SSL-encryption. ... // Introduction NetGamers is a medium-sized network, with servers across Europe and N.America, with an average of about 2000 concurrent users, which rises depending on the popularity of its partner games. ... Phishy is a small IRC network, which is mainly used by Irish users. ... SlashNET is a medium-sized, independently-operated Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network. ... StarLink. ... StarLink-IRC, commonly abbreviated as slirc is a general-purpose IRC network that splitted from StarLink. ... VKT stands for Vakarų Kompiuteriniai Tinklai (Western Computer Networks) which is localted in Vilnius, Lithuania. ... Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. ... A computer network is a system for communication between computers. ... The term Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS or sometimes FOSS) is a hybrid term for both free software and open source software. ... HTML and JavaScript in an IDE that uses color coding to highlight various keywords and help the developer see the function of each piece of code. ... This article is about Free Software as defined by the sociopolitical Free Software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... The GNU logo, drawn by Etienne Suvasa The GNU Project was announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman. ...

Users of the network are encouraged to contribute to the Peer-Directed Projects Center (PDPC). The contributed funds are used to continue the improvement of the network, as well as for the PDPC to take on a variety of charitable social support projects for the FOSS communities. The Peer-Directed Projects Center (PDPC), founded in 2002, is an organisation led and solely operated by A Habitual Beggar (lilo) (President and Executive Director) which runs the freenode IRC Network and other similar peer-directed projects. ... Allegorical personification of Charity as a mother with three infants by Anthony van Dyck Charity, meaning selfless giving, is one conventional English translation of the Greek term agapē. // Etymology In the 1400, charity meant the state of love or simple affection which one was in or out of regarding one... FOSS is an acronym for free and open source software that is most often used in English-speaking military software communities. ...

freenode uses IRC server software called hyperion-ircd, a fork of the formerly used software called dancer-ircd. Hyperion traces ancestry back to EFnet's ircd-hybrid-6.0 tree (as opposed to Undernet) codebase. It has NickServ and ChanServ bots provided to reserve nicknames and channels. The services program is theia (formerly dancer-services), and it is a modified version of hybserv, designed only to work with hyperion-ircd, due to changes in the server to server messages. freenode servers are usually named after science fiction or fantasy authors. An IRCD (Internet Relay Chat Daemon) is a computer program to create an IRC server on which people can talk to each other via the internet. ... EFnet or Eris Free network (also written EFNet) is a major IRC network, with over 100,000 users. ... The Undernet is one of the largest IRC networks. ... IRC services is a common name for a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks. ... IRC services is a common name for a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks. ... In information technology, a server is a computer system that provides services to other computing systems—called clients—over a network. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... // For other meanings see Fantasy (disambiguation) Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ...

History

Rob Levin (lilo), the founder of the network, traces its inception back to January 29, 1994, when he started a small Linux support channel called #linuxneo on the EFnet IRC network. The channel wasn't active until August of that year, and soon after it became active it changed its name to #linpeople. Rob Levin, who goes by the nickname lilo on IRC, is the founder and head of staff of freenode, and the executive director of Peer-Directed Projects Center. ... January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a computer operating system. ... Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. ...

It then moved from Undernet to DALnet, and in late 1995 moved again to its own IRC server, irc.linpeople.org. In 1998, the server was renamed irc.openprojects.net and generalized its mission, attracting a variety of free software projects. And in August 2002, it became a network: freenode, a service of Peer-Directed Projects Center. DALnet is an Internet relay chat (IRC) network founded in July 1994 by members of the EFNet #startrek channel. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... This article is about Free Software as defined by the sociopolitical Free Software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

External links

• freenode.net (official site)
• Channel list (from netsplit.de)
• chat.freenode.net (freenode IRC main rotation access)
• hyperion (information about the new hyperion ircd)
• NOIDPREFIXPurpose (a policy page describing the purpose of a planned freenode server feature)
• Freenode Budget Reports