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Open and Free Technology Community
The Open and Free Technology Community (OFTC) is an IRC network that provides collaboration services to members of the free software community in any part of the world. OFTC is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest, a non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. Their servers are all accessible from the domain name irc.oftc.net. OFTC currently has 32 volunteer staff members, and 21 sponsors.
History.
OFTC was founded at the
and SJR (SCImago Journal Rank). 
Overview.
It is developed and launched in 2001 by Informatics India Ltd. As a contribution to the Open Access community, Informatics initially also offered a free platform named Open J-Gate.
The current J-Gate version is categorized into 6 different top level subjects like Biomedical Sciences, Engineering & Technology, Social & Management Science, Agriculture & Biological Sciences, Arts & Humanities and Basic Sciences. J-Gate is accompanied by an extended version, named J-Gate Custom