Gone are the days when IRC was the only place to engage with open source communities in real time. Now, projects have a gluttony of choice when deciding on a platform to host their community and development chat rooms. But how can we manage the problem where half the community insists on sticking to their painstakingly cludged together command line IRC configurations, and the other half just can't function without emoji reactions? Well, yes, it's more nuanced than that, but can we help bridge the gap by teaching an old protocol new tricks?

This talk will cover the IRCv3 working group's progress on modernising the IRC protocol, and how to use gateways to merge a forked community back together.

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