Here is a small list of famous projects from the common developer tools and their corresponding contact web pages that mention IRC plus where to find help and/o

Here is a small list of famous projects from the common developer tools and their corresponding contact web pages that mention IRC plus where to find help and/or core developers of such projects. - Databases - mysql http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/irc.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/irc.html postgres http://www.postgresql.org/community/irc/ http://www.postgresql.org/community/irc/ firebird http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news-portals/ http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news-portals/ oracle http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/IRC http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/IRC * not oficial * - Virtualization - virtualbox https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/IRC https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/IRC vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/support.html https://www.vagrantup.com/support.html - Languages - ruby https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/ python https://www.python.org/community/irc/ https://www.python.org/community/irc/ perl http://www.irc.perl.org/ http://www.irc.perl.org/ go https://golang.org/help/ https://golang.org/help/ - Editors - vim http://www.vim.org/community.php http://www.vim.org/community.php emacs http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InternetRelayChat http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InternetRelayChat - webservers - nginx http://wiki.nginx.org/Community http://wiki.nginx.org/Community apache http://httpd.apache.org/support.html http://httpd.apache.org/support.html - Linux distros - arch https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IRC_channel https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IRC_channel ubuntu https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/ChannelList https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/ChannelList freebsd https://wiki.freebsd.org/IrcChannels https://wiki.freebsd.org/IrcChannels - Java - hibernate http://hibernate.org/community/ http://hibernate.org/community/ tomcat http://tomcat.apache.org/irc.html http://tomcat.apache.org/irc.html - Window managers - i3 http://i3wm.org/contact/ http://i3wm.org/contact/ gnome https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/IRC https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/IRC kde https://userbase.kde.org/IRC_Channels https://userbase.kde.org/IRC_Channels fluxbox http://fluxbox.org/help/ http://fluxbox.org/help/ - Broswers - opera http://irc.opera.com/ http://irc.opera.com/ chromium http://www.chromium.org/contact http://www.chromium.org/contact firefox https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC - Image Software - Gimp http://www.gimp.org/irc.html http://www.gimp.org/irc.html Inkscape https://inkscape.org/en/community/discussion/ https://inkscape.org/en/community/discussion/