User Sysadmins

Corporate investors and "professionals" are dangerous to liberty.

Well-educated users have no need for professionals.

Educated and trained users are the strongest defense of free networks--without professionals, our liberty can never be in danger.

To have good moderation, don't concentrate power, but distribute it.

Sharing knowledge is the only way to guard our liberty.

The software used by the IRCNow network is designed to be easy to install, configure, and maintain on your own hardware. The software does not depend on any single cloud vendor or proprietary platform. They were selected so that even hobbyists, with little training, can quickly learn the entire system and administer it. IRCNow strive to make the code follow the UNIX philosophy so that it will be simple to understand and easy to fork. These design decisions were made so that the power of the code will always rest in the hands of the users rather than an elite class of professionals controlled by powerful corporations.

Unlike other networks, which hire outside professionals, IRCNow recruits teammates from among its own users. The users themselves, when educated about their freedoms, will be best fit to govern their own network.