In order to facilitate real-time collaboration with community membes and developers, we've created an IRC channel:  #webgui on Freenode, irc://irc.freenode.net#webgui

If you are new to IRC, that's ok.  There are many resources on the web to help you get acquainted with its use. If you intend to hang out for a while, remember to register your nick as well. If you need help, ask in the channel, otherwise Freenode's FAQ is a good place to start.

We've also included a list of clients that can be used to join.

Windows Based Clients

• Visual IRC
• mIRC
• Pirch
• Besirc
• X-Chat (a freely built version of X-Chat is also available)

Mac OSX Based Clients

• Snak
• Colloquy
• Conversation

Linux Based Clients

• X-Chat
• Ghoti
• Relay-IRC
• Gaim (now Pidgin, and it works quite good with windows too)

Browser-based IRC Cients

• http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=webgui
  

  Very simple. Provide a meaningful nickname, and enter the capcha code.

• http://java.freenode.net/index.php?channel=webgui (Java)
  • Choose a Nickname
  • Press the connect button

Connect to irc.freenode.net.  Then join #webgui.

Channel Amenities

Pastebins

Don't flood the channel by pasting lots of lines of code or from your logs. Instead, use one of these pastebins and post the resulting URL on #webgui:

• http://webgui.pastebin.com/
• http://sial.org/pbot/perl
• http://erxz.com/pb
• http://p3m.org/pfn/perl

Imagebins

If you want to share a screenshot or any random image with the channel, use one of these imagebins and post the resulting URL on #webgui:

• http://imagebin.org/
• http://imagebin.ca/
• http://www.imagebin.eu/

Channel bots

• perlbot
  

  < perlbot> (fact) : tell (who) about (what) : (what) > (who) : learn (what) as (info) : relearn (fact) as (info) : phone (phone #) : shorten (url) : shorten it : search (keyword) : cpan (module) : docs (module) : perldoc -f (function) : jargon (term) : math (expr): fortune : flip : host (type) (record) : rot13 (text) : roll (die) : tempconv (temp) : scramble (foo) : 8ball (question) : slap (who) : diss (who) : top/bottom (number) karma : geoip (ip)

Past Logs 

An archive of the channel logs is kindly offered by xdanger (Jukka Raimovaara) at http://mentalhouse.net/irc/logs/webgui/