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to work on something to avoid duplicated effort.
<p>
Another good list to subscribe to is &email-debian-mentors;. See <ref
-id="mentors"> for details. The IRC channel <tt>#debian</tt> on the
-Linux People IRC network (e.g., <tt>irc.debian.org</tt>) can also be
+id="mentors"> for details. The IRC channel <tt>#debian</tt> can also be
helpful.
<p>
<sect id="irc-channels">IRC channels
<p>
-Several IRC channels are dedicated to Debian's development. They are all
-hosted on the <url id="&url-openprojects;" name="OpenProjects"> network.
-The <tt>irc.debian.org</tt> DNS entry is just an alias to
+Several IRC channels are dedicated to Debian's development. They are mainly
+hosted on the <url id="&url-openprojects;" name="freenode"> network
+(previously known as Open Projects Network).
+The <tt>irc.debian.org</tt> DNS entry is an alias to
<tt>irc.openprojects.net</tt>.
<p>
-The main channel <em>#debian-devel</em> is very active since more
-than 150 persons are always logged in. It's a channel for people who work
+The main channel for Debian in general is <em>#debian</em>. This is a large,
+general-purpose channel where users can find recent news in the topic and
+served by bots. <em>#debian</em> is for English speakers; there are also
+<em>#debian.de</em>, <em>#debian-fr</em>, <em>#debian-br</em> and other
+similarly named channels for speakers of other languages.
+ <p>
+The main channel for Debian development is <em>#debian-devel</em>.
+It is a very active channel since usually over 150 people are always
+logged in. It's a channel for people who work
on Debian, it's not a support channel (there's <em>#debian</em> for that).
It is however open to anyone who wants to lurk (and learn). Its topic is
-always full of interesting information. Since it's an open channel, you
+commonly full of interesting information for developers.
+ <p>
+Since <em>#debian-devel</em> it's an open channel, you
should not speak there of issues that are discussed in
-&email-debian-private;. There's a key protected channel
-<em>#debian-private</em> for that purpose. The key is available
-in the archives of debian-private in
+&email-debian-private;. There's another channel for this purpose,
+it's called <em>#debian-private</em> and it's protected by a key.
+This key is available in the archives of debian-private in
<file>master.debian.org:&file-debian-private-archive;</file>,
just <prgn>zgrep</prgn> for <em>#debian-private</em> in
all the files.
<em>#debian-bugs</em> is used for coordinating bug squash parties.
<em>#debian-boot</em> is used to coordinate the work on the boot
floppies (i.e. the installer). <em>#debian-doc</em> is
-occasionally used to work on documentation like the one you are
+occasionally used to talk about documentation, like the document you are
reading. Other channels are dedicated to an architecture or a set of
-packages: <em>#debian-bsd</em>, <em>#debian-kde</em>,
+packages: <em>#debian-bsd</em>, <em>#debian-kde</em>, <em>#debian-jr</em>,
+<em>#debian-edu</em>,
<em>#debian-sf</em> (SourceForge package), <em>#debian-oo</em> (OpenOffice
package) ...
<p>
-Some non-English channels exist, for example <em>#debian-devel-fr</em> for
+Some non-English developers' channels exist as well, for example
+<em>#debian-devel-fr</em> for
French speaking people interested in Debian's development.
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