Internet Relay Chat

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a chat protocol that has been around for a long time but still remains popular, especially among the open source crowd.

Virginia Tech Related IRC Channels

Freenode

irc.freenode.net is probably the most popular IRC service for free cultural projects. Big names like Wikipedia and Ubuntu have their official channels there.

#vtluug

Channel for the Linux and Unix Users Group, active

#ossie

Channel for the OSSIE software defined radio prroject, inactive

#vtreeculture

Channel for Free Culture, defunct

2600net

irc.2600.net offers some nice features like SSL. Virginia Tech students typically primarily idle in just one channel on that server.

#va2600

Channel for 2600 readers, group members and others in Virginia.