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title: Chat with OpenMandriva
description: Guide and FAQ related to chat
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date: 2021-01-27T18:14:40.144Z
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dateCreated: 2020-03-12T11:50:57.466Z
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# Chat with OpenMandriva team: guide and FAQ

> If you are a newcomer just want a quick and easy way to join OpenMandriva chat rooms, please follow this [tutorial](/doc/join-chatroom-matrix).
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## Where to join the team?

There are two places where you can meet OpenMandriva team. You can access them using one of the protocols below

- Generic discussions
  1.    Matrix room: [#openmandriva:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#openmandriva:matrix.org)
  1.    IRC channel: #openmandriva @freenode
  1.    Telegram group: https://t.me/openmandriva
- Develoment (Cooker) discussions  
  1.    Matrix room: [#openmandriva-cooker:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#oma:matrix.org)
  1.    IRC channel: #openmandriva-cooker @freenode
        
## Meetings

There are weekly meetings in Cooker room, historically called Technical Comittee, or TC. If you want to be warned when the meeting start, please subscribe by sending the command `!subscribe TC` (you can unsubscribe later with `!unsubscribe tc`). You'll receive a confirmation from the bot called ermintrude.

You can also set your timezone so people can easily know what time it is in your timezone. For instance
'.settz America/Chicago'
People in discussion can know your current time by typing `.tz nickname`