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title: Welcome
meta-description: Welcome to the IRCv3 Working Group. We're a group of IRC client and server software authors working to improve the IRC protocol.
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    <span class="desktop">We’re a collection of IRC developers and network</span>
    <span class="desktop">staff working to enhance the IRC protocol</span>
    <span class="nodesktop">We’re a collection of IRC developers and network staff working to enhance the IRC protocol</span>
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    <h2>Charter</h2>
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      We’re chartered to prototype, develop and test changes to the IRC client protocol. This defines our rules and goals.
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    <h2>Participation</h2>
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      We contain participants from many top IRC networks and projects. Here’s how you can participate with the WG.
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    <h2>GitHub</h2>
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      All of our projects and code (including even this website) can be found and contributed to on the IRCv3 GitHub team.
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<h2>Introduction</h2>
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  We’re the IRCv3 Working Group – a collection of IRC software developers and network staff that develop extensions to the IRC client protocol. We’re always interested in new viewpoints, so check out our <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/participation.html">participation page</a> if you’re interested!
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  If you’re interested in talking with us, our discussion channel is <a href="ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/#ircv3">#ircv3 on Libera.Chat</a> <sup><a href="https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.libera.chat:+6697/#ircv3">[webchat]</a></sup>.
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      <h2 style="margin-top: 0">Working Group Updates <a class="rss-button" href="{{ site.baseurl }}/feed.xml"><i class="fa fa-rss-square"></i> RSS</a></h2>

      <p>Below you can see the latest updates to specifications, new proposals, and
generally what’s going on with the IRCv3 Working Group.</p>

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          <h3><a href="https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-specifications/milestone/4">Roadmap</a></h3>
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              <p>Our roadmap <a href="https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-specifications/milestone/4"><sup>[link]</sup></a> always contains info on our direction moving forward, the sort of features we have planned and our priorities.</p>
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