This page tells you where you can talk online about GNOME. This means either if you are a user and are looking for help, or a developer or anybody who wants to help or Join the GNOME project.
To use IRC you need an IRC client. The following GNOME apps provide IRC ability:
xchat-gnome IRC client.
Pidgin IM and IRC client
or use the Chatzilla Firefox Add-on
Contents
if not stated otherwise all channels mentioned here are on irc.gnome.org
Note: gimpnet is currently under attack by spambots, and as a result, many channels are temporarily invite-only. Use /msg Dorito invite #channel to get invite
GNOME Desktop
#gnome - General GNOME talk
#bugs - THE place to learn how to triage bugs in bugzilla
#nautilus - The default file browser for GNOME
#docs - GNOME Documentation project
GNOME Servers & GNOME Web
#gnome-art - GNOME Art website
#webhackers - Some GNOME webhackers in there...
#sysadmin - The channel for the official GNOME servers (most users wont need to go here)
GNOME Internet Applications
#epiphany - Channel for the Epiphany web browser
#evolution - Evolution help channel
#xchat-gnome - Help/development for the xchat-gnome IRC client (chat.freenode.net)
#galeon - Help channel for the Galeon browser project
#ekiga- Help channel for Ekiga formerly the GnomeMeeting H.323 videoconferencing/VOIP application
#tinymail- Help channel for Tinymail
Other Languages or Local Groups
#gnome-de - German users and hackers
#gnome.se - Swedish Gnome.se (http://www.gnome.se/)
#gnome-it - Italian users and hackers it.gnome.org (http://www.it.gnome.org/)
#gnome - Korean folks, as www.gnome.or.kr as alway concentration gnome (irc://irc.hanirc.org)
#gnomefr - French - GnomeFR (http://www.gnomefr.org)
#gnome-hispano- Canal de GNOME en lengua castellana / GNOME channel in Spanish language - GNOME Hispano (http://www.es.gnome.org/)
#gnome-nl - GNOME Nederlands / GNOME channel in Dutch language - GNOME Nederlands (http://nl.gnome.org/)
#gnome-ru - Russian folks.
#gnome-cz - Czech channel (http://live.gnome.org/Czech)
GNOME Office & Graphics
#gimp- GIMP help/developers channel
#planner - Help on Planner
#gnome-db - Everything about GNOME-DB
#gnucash - Exchanging GNUs for Cash right now!
#gnome-office - Talk about GNOME office
Build Scripts
#garnome - GARNOME build script channel
GNOME Software Development
#gnome-hackers - General GNOME Development talk
#gtk+ - Development of, and with, GTK+
#c++ - Development of, and with, the gtkmm and gnomemm C++ bindings
#devel-apps - Development of the Anjuta IDE, devhelp, glade and other devel apps
#glade3- Talk about Glade user interface designer
#pygtk - Development of, and with PyGTK python bindings, you can also ask general python questions here
#ruby-gnome2 - Development of, and with Ruby GNOME bindings, you can also ask general Ruby questions here
#gnome-love - Getting started with GNOME development.
#gtk-perl - Development of, and with, the gtk2-perl (http://gtk2-perl.sf.net/) group of Perl modules
#vala - Development of, and with, Vala
Other Help (with GNOME aware people)
#penguins - Lots of friendly expert help (used to be #linuxxchange) (irc.freenode.net)
#gnome-debian - Debian GNOME Maintainers discussion
##gnome - Unofficial GNOME help channel on freenode. (irc.freenode.net)
