Open and Free Technology Community
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| Founded | 2001 |
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| Website URL | Template:URL2 |
| Primary DNS | irc.oftc.net |
| Average users | 18,100 (June 16, 2021) |
| Average channels | 3,600 (June 16, 2021) |
| Average servers | 21 |
| Content/subject | Public/Unrestricted |
The Open and Free Technology Community (OFTC) is an IRC network that provides collaboration services to members of the free software community in any part of the world. OFTC is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest, a non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. As of October 2019, OFTC has 31 volunteer staff members, and 16 sponsors.[1]
History
OFTC was founded at the end of 2001 by a group of experienced members of the open source and free software communities aiming to provide these communities with better communication, development, and support infrastructure. OFTC is ruled by a written constitution and the staff elect the officers among each other using a voting mechanism. OFTC became a member project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI) in July 2002, and SPI became the legal owner of the project's domain names.
The ability for all users to connect using Transport Layer Security was added in April 2016 with the use of SSL certificates from the Let's Encrypt certificate authority.[2]
In 2016, OFTC was bridged to the Matrix instant messaging network.[3]
Projects
OFTC currently develops three projects for its purposes: "oftc-hybrid" (a fork of the Hybrid IRC daemon),[4] "oftc-ircservices" (the IRC services suite),[5] and "oftc-geodns" (a GeoIP DNS responder to handle user distribution across the servers).[6] OFTC uses GitHub repositories to host its codebase and issue tracker.[2] Prospective users of the software can find tarball releases at https://www.oftc.net/releases/, named according to semantic versioning.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Staff". OFTC. Archived from the original on 2019-10-14. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."OFTC - Home". OFTC. Archived from the original on 2019-10-13. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."New IRC Integrations: OFTC and Snoonet". Medium. 27 September 2016. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.OFTC's branch of Hybrid IRCd, OFTC, 2019-05-11, retrieved 2019-10-14
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.OFTC's IRC Services, OFTC, 2019-08-13, retrieved 2019-10-14
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.OFTC operator and user tools, OFTC, 2019-10-14, retrieved 2019-10-14
Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Freenode and OFTC Networks Start Cooperation". IRC-Junkie.org. May 23, 2007. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Debian IRC Network moves to OFTC". Debian. June 4, 2006. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
External links
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- oftc-hybrid at Open Hub
- OFTC at Advogato
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