<$BlogRSDUrl$> Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
Internet Happenings, Events and Sources


Tuesday, November 08, 2016  



FreeNode - Free and Open Source Communities
http://freenode.net/

The freen­ode project be­gan as #lin­ux­neo, a tiny GNU/Lin­ux sup­port chan­nel, cre­at­ed by Rob Levin in 1994 on EFNet IRC. The chan­nel soon changed its name to #Lin­Peo­ple. By 1995, af­ter mov­ing to Un­der­net and then DAL­net, #Lin­Peo­ple be­came a small net­work, irc.lin­peo­ple.org. In ear­ly 1998, it be­came Open Projects Net, with about 200 users and few­er than 20 chan­nels. In 2002, Open Projects Net be­came freen­ode, a ser­vice of Peer-Di­rect­ed Projects Cen­ter, a tax-ex­empt cor­po­ra­tion. In 2013, the Peer-Di­rect­ed Projects Cen­ter shut down; how­ev­er the freen­ode project con­tin­ues to op­er­ate as be­fore. To­day, the freen­ode project plays host to some­where in the re­gion of 90,000 users and just shy of 50,000 reg­is­tered chan­nels. The freen­ode project is man­aged en­tire­ly by a small team of en­thu­si­as­tic vol­un­teers who all share a pas­sion for free and open source soft­ware and peer-di­rect­ed project com­mu­ni­ties. You can learn more about the peo­ple be­hind freen­ode here. The freen­ode project has ex­pe­ri­enced im­mense growth over the years and, in line with its orig­i­nal vi­sion, the project pro­vides in­ter­ac­tive dis­cus­sion fa­cil­i­ties to a num­ber of free and open source soft­ware com­mu­ni­ties and oth­er peer-di­rect­ed projects. Peer-di­rect­ed projects com­bine open, in­for­mal par­tic­i­pa­tion with broad li­cens­ing and wide dis­sem­i­na­tion of out­put. This will be added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™.

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