While we do our best to provide live, interactive Q&A via IRC, obviously we all get busy at times (or need to sleep).  So, if you do not get a response via IRC, we recommend emailing your question to the "dspace-tech" Mailing List as an alternative.  If you are encountering issues with DSpace, we also reviewing the recommendations under our Troubleshoot an error guide.

There are two dedicated DSpace IRC (internet relay chat) channels (i.e. "rooms") on the irc.freenode.net server:

If you do not have access to an IRC client, or are new to IRC, the following web interfaces are very easy way to get started:

For a list of IRC client software, see:

Many current Instant Messaging (IM) clients also support IRC. Here's a list of widely used software you can install that will allow you to connect to IRC: