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<h1 align=center>Open Projects Network</h1>

<p>This <a href="http://www.openprojects.net/">network</a> was founded
by Robert 'lilo' Levin in the hope to help the Free Software community

<p>Open Projects Net's focus includes open source and free software
applications and operating systems, open hardware, open standards,
free technology, technological education, public domain advocacy,
literacy, open access for the disabled and public access to art. Its
slogan sums up the focus: Open source, open technology, open
information.

<p>The basis for this network are sponsored machines and bandwidth all
over the world that host an <a href="irc.html">IRC</a> daemon for
means of online communication.  Since then a lot of developers and
users have joined channels on this network.

<h3>Servers</h3>

<p>This network consists of IRC server all around the world.  Many of
them are aliased to one or more virtual servers.  With round-robin-dns
you'll connect to either of them when you use one of the generic names
from the following (incomplete) list.</p>

<p><ul>
<li> irc.openprojects.net (World)
<li> irc.nl.openprojects.net (Netherlands)
<li> irc.at.openprojects.net (Austria)
<li> irc.au.openprojects.net (Australia)
<li> irc.eu.openprojects.net (Europe)
<li> irc.us.openprojects.net (U.S.A.)
</ul>

<p>To receive the entire listing, try <code>host -l openprojects.net</code>.

<h3>Channels</h3>

<p>A couple of large projects have joined OPN and use the network for
project specific channels and user support.  The following list is
only an excerpt.  Please use the <code>/list</code> command for an
entire listing of all public channels.</p>

<p>The following list is only a small except.  Most large projects
maintain a number of channels for their communication.</p>

<p><ul>
<li> #sawfish - the window manager
<li> #Hurd - the mach operating system
<li> #SuSE - for SuSE Linux
<li> #icewm - the other window manager
<li> #kde, #kde-devel, #kde-chat - the K Desktop Environment
<li> #debian, #debian-devel, #debian-boot - the Debian Project
<li> #linux, #linux-it, #linuxfr - for Linux in general
<li> #kernelnewbies - the Linux Kernel Hackers
<li> #quakeforge - Quake hacking
<li> #freebsd - the other operating system
<li> #slackware - the other distribution
<li> #php - the web language
<li> #nvidia - NVIDIA Linux Driver Support Channel, though *inofficial* 
</ul>

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