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.

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.

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.

Blaketh
CanoeBerry
Clint (Debian, Libre.fm)
FelipeSanches -- Felipe Corrêa da Silva Sanches a.k.a. "Juca" (GNU LibreDWG, Universal Subtitles, Inkscape & Garoa Hacker Clube). I blog here.
Kẏra (or Kira or Kyra) is an FSF employee and Hampshire College student. They like free software and free culture. * Uses they/them pronouns. * Danny Piccirillo by birth
vVvA
HerraBRE
JasonWoof
Robot101
SwartzCR
TDBot
_bernie -- Bernie Innocenti, Hacker extraordinaire at Codewiz, Inc.
bemasc
brett
christine
cjb
craSH
crschmidt
daf
danjared
dilinger
dithyramble
djbclark
donald
dondelelcaro
erikg
fR_
User:Fiendish (Avi Kelman)
freedeb -- I occasionally ramble over here, http://eximiousproductions.com/
gakera
gravity
isd -- http://www.zenhack.net
isforinsects -- aka: Seth, Sethish, is4
iros
ivan`
jgay
johns
jordi
jose_
kevix -- Kevin Mark, Free Software Advocate, OLPC volunteer
lfaraone -- Luke Faraone -- Debian Developer, Ubuntu MOTU, Sugar Labs guy.
m_stone
maalox
mad -- Madeleine Price Ball
mako
maluhia
marcell
mattl -- Matt Lee (ex-FSF and still with Foo Communications)
Mayo -- Mayo also known as Mayoneti or Lilaroja
mchua
mdz
mfb_
micah
mika
mindspillage
mindstalk
mollydb
nifgraup
nikete
oneironaut -- Keith Simmons
paulproteus
paultag -- Paul Tagliamonte
pde
pyrak
radii
rmo
schoen
sdubois -- Stevie DuBois (former FSF intern and resident bird-law expert)
shauna
silbe -- Sascha Silbe (Sugar Labs Oompa-Loompa)
slikdigit
smari
stargirl
sumanah
venkatesh
vinay
warren
wgreenhouse
xxv -- Steve Pomeroy
zeroday
missperovaz -- Carolina Brum Medeiros (current resident)