Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Windows IRC

On Windows, we'll be using mIRC, a popular graphical IRC chat client.

IRC client setup instructions

 * 1) Download mIRC from this link.
 * 2) Read through the material on Getting started with mIRC. We'll practice using IRC in depth later in the day.

IRC client practice: joining the OpenHatch channel
During this workshop we'll get practice using IRC and help each other as we contribute to project in the #openhatch channel on the Freenode network.

Here are the connection details for joining the Freenode network and the OpenHatch IRC channel:

IRC server name: irc.freenode.net channel name: #openhatch

Given that information, and reviewing the mIRC overview above, use mIRC to connect to Freenode and join the OpenHatch channel. Pick any nickname you like. :) Once you are joined the channel, say hello!

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