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        <h1>Welcome to the IRCv3 Working Group</h1>
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      <p class="lead">We're a group of IRC client and server software authors working to enhance, maintain and standardize the IRC protocol. Stakeholders in IRC such as IRC networks and network operators are invited to participate.</p>

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          <h1><a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/participation.html" class="blog noline"><span class="fa fa-fw fa-comment"></span> Participation</a></h1>
          <p>The IRCv3 Working Group contains participants from many top IRC networks and development teams, and welcomes new participants.</p>
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          <h1><a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/irc/" class="blog noline"><span class="fa fa-fw fa-cogs"></span> Specifications</a></h1>
          <p>We have been releasing IRCv3 specifications with exciting, useful new features for networks, and client / server authors.</p>
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          <p>The IRCv3 blog contains our latest project releases and research as well as viewpoints from our members.</p>
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          <h1><a href="https://github.com/ircv3" class="blog noline"><span class="fa fa-fw fa-github"></span> GitHub</a></h1>
          <p>All of our projects and code (including even this website) can be found and contributed to on the IRCv3 GitHub.</p>
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      <h2>IRCv3 WG Updates <a style="padding: 0.2rem 0.6rem; border-radius: 0.4rem; background: #F2F2F2; margin-left: 1rem; font-size: 1.85rem; color: #cc6f0f" href="/feed.xml"><i class="fa fa-rss-square"></i> RSS</a></h2>

      <p style="margin-bottom: 2rem">Below is a rough log of what the IRCv3 working group's been up to including recent changes to specifications and new proposals:</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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