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-<title>OpenStack IRC meetings</title>
+<title>OpenStack IRC channels and meetings</title>
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-  <h1>OpenStack IRC meetings</h1>
+  <h1>OpenStack IRC channels and meetings</h1>
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 <div class="container">
 
- <h2>Logging</h2>
- <p>OpenStack IRC channels and logged. You can find them here:</p>
+ <h2>IRC channels</h2>
+ <p>OpenStack maintains a large number of channels on the Freenode IRC network for community communications. You can learn more about IRC in the <a href="https://docs.openstack.org/contributors/common/irc.html">Contributor Guide</a>.</p>
+ <p>The main channels are:</p>
+ <ul>
+  <li><a href="https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=openstack">#openstack</a> (for usage questions)</li>
+  <li><a href="https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=openstack-dev">#openstack-dev (for development questions)</a></li>
+  <li><a href="https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=openstack-infra">#openstack-infra</a> (for questions about the project infrastructure)</li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>OpenStack IRC channels and logged. You can find all channels and all logs here:</p>
 <div class="well"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-fast-backward"></span>&nbsp;
 <a href="irclogs/">IRC Channel Logs</a></div>
  <p>Links to specific meeting logs can be found on meeting descriptions below.</p>
 
- <h2>Meeting schedule</h2>
+ <h2>IRC meetings schedule</h2>
  <p>The IRC meetings schedule is driven by the
 <a href=http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/irc-meetings/tree/>openstack-infra/irc-meetings</a> repository.
 To propose a change, please submit a change to that repository in Gerrit.</p>
