IRC

What is IRC?
Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, is a form of real-time Internet text messaging chat. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfers via Direct Client-to-Client.

We use IRC for some meetings, general discussion and party communication because it's widely supported and client software is available for virtually all platforms. A comparison of IRC clients can be found here. If you do not have an IRC client, you can connect online here.

Many people leave their clients connected indefinitely to these channels, and will respond to questions eventually, so please understand that responses to questions may not be immediate.

Our Channels
The Pirate Party Australia IRC channels are now hosted on the global PirateIRC network, this is linked to our Australian domain and also to the official Swedish Pirate Party network, Piratpartiet (when their network is stable).

Our server is located at au.pirateirc.net, the port numbers are: 6667 (clear) and 6697 (SSL)

The basic means of communication in an established IRC session is a channel.

To join the official channel:

You can also connect to the server at irc.pirateparty.org.au and irc.pirateirc.net. If at any time you are having trouble connecting with the PirateIRC.net server then join these ones, the channels are linked, so you won't miss anything.

We also have channels for specific topics and work groups.

Other Channels
These are channels which exist, but aren't necessarily official channels, or a simply channels of interest.

Registered User
With IRC you can have a registered nickname, so that no one else on that server can pretend to be you.

To register, submit this, replacing PASSWORD with a password of your choice and EMAIL with a valid email address.

Once you have responded to the confirmation email you can now log in using:

Register a nickname and start talking.

User Modes
In a channel, users can have different 'modes', which allows a user to do more interactions to other users and moderate the channel.

The following is a list of commonly used modes.