Acetarium (IRC)
#acetarium is an IRC channel located on the OFTC IRC network. You can connect to the network at irc.oftc.net. Although the etymology is a matter of debate, the name seems to refer to either the Latin word for salad or to a highly exclusive living, working, and recreation center in Davis Square, Somerville.
[edit] What is IRC?
IRC is like a chat system based around public channels but with the ability to do IM-like personal messages as well. It's nearly as old at the Internet and often feels like that!
To connect to IRC, you'll need an IRC client. Some IM clients like Pidgin support many different protocol have support for IRC as well. If you already use one of these clients, you might trying setting IRC this way. That said, most people tend to choose to use dedicated IRC clients. The most popular free software client is probably Xchat and it should be easily available in almost any major GNU/Linux distribution.
General advice on setting up IRC can be found in this article which includes instructions on setting up IRC on GNU/Linux, Windows, and Mac.
The key pieces of information you'll need to configure any client are:
- Server/Host:
irc.oftc.net - Channel:
#acetarium
Introduce yourself when you join so folks know who you are! If you explain you are new to IRC, others will more than happy to help answer any questions you have.
[edit] Face Book
This is a face book (not to be confused with the social network) for #acetarium and other top secret IRC channels. Add a link to the photo of the person below their name or upload a photograph.
[edit] Blaketh
[edit] CanoeBerry
[edit] Clint
- Clint Adams (Debian, Libre.fm)
[edit] dpic
Former FSF intern. Likes free software and free culture.
- TheSilentNumber on much of the internet
- DPic on the rest of the internet
- Danny Piccirillo by birth
[edit] FelipeSanches
- Felipe CorrĂȘa da Silva Sanches a.k.a. "Juca" (GNU LibreDWG, Universal Subtitles, Inkscape & Garoa Hacker Clube)
- I blog here.
[edit] vVvA
[edit] HerraBRE
[edit] JasonWoof
[edit] Robot101
[edit] SwartzCR
[edit] TDBot
[edit] _bernie
Bernie Innocenti
Hacker extraordinaire at Codewiz, Inc.
[edit] bemasc
[edit] brett
[edit] christine
[edit] cjb
[edit] craSH
[edit] crschmidt
[edit] daf
[edit] danjared
[edit] dilinger
[edit] dithyramble
[edit] djbclark
[edit] donald
[edit] dondelelcaro
[edit] erikg
[edit] fR_
[edit] fiendish
- Avi Kelman (User:Fiendish)
[edit] freedeb
I occasionally ramble over here, http://eximiousproductions.com/
[edit] gakera
[edit] gravity
[edit] isforinsects
- aka: Seth, Sethish, is4
[edit] iros
[edit] ivan`
[edit] jgay
[edit] johns
[edit] jordi
[edit] jose_
[edit] jose__
[edit] kevix
- Kevin Mark, Free Software Advocate, OLPC volunteer
[edit] lfaraone
Luke Faraone
Debian Developer, Ubuntu MOTU, Sugar Labs guy.
[edit] m_stone
[edit] maalox
[edit] mad
[edit] mako
[edit] maluhia
[edit] marcell
[edit] mattl
- Matt Lee (of FSF and Foo Communications)
[edit] Mayo
[edit] mchua
[edit] mdz
[edit] mfb_
[edit] micah
[edit] mika
[edit] mindspillage
[edit] mindstalk
[edit] mollydb
[edit] nifgraup
[edit] oneironaut
[edit] paulproteus
[edit] paultag
- Paul Tagliamonte
[edit] pde
[edit] pyrak
[edit] radii
[edit] rmo
[edit] schoen
[edit] sdubois
- Stevie DuBois (former FSF intern and resident bird-law expert)
[edit] silbe
- Sascha Silbe (Sugar Labs Oompa-Loompa)







