The Undernet User Committee

The Undernet Promotions team is pleased to announce a decade retrospect on the history of IRC called "A Decade of IRC: Family and Friends Forever". The event will be held on August 29th, 1998 at 3:30pm EDT (7:30pm GMT) in #liveevents on the Undernet IRC Network.
For this event, we have invited people who have made a difference in IRC over its 10 years in existence:

Jarkko Oikarinen (WiZ) - Creator of IRC in 1988 and maintainer through 1991.
Khaled Mardam-Bey - Creator and maintainer of the most popular Windows client, mIRC.
David Low (Super) - Former Channel Service coordinator / Senior Channel Service admin.
Robin Thellend (SeKs) - Creator of X/W and Channel Service admin.
Carlo Wood (Run) - IRCu maintainer and Coder-Com coordinator.
Dafydd James (DuffJ) - DALnet coding and services coordinator.
Darren Reed (Avalon) - IRC developer and maintainer since the beginning.
Helen Rose (Trillian) - Development team coordinator, mailing list/documents maintainer for several years.

We hope you can make it to this exciting and informative event! If you have any questions, please email LiveEvents@Undernet.org. If you are unable to make it to the event, but would like to read logs of this historical occasion, point your browser to http://www.user-com.undernet.org/promotions one week after the event.
To get on the Undernet, load your IRC chat client and type /server us.undernet.org if you're in the United States, /server eu.undernet.org if you're in Europe, and /server auckland.nz.undernet.org if you're in New Zealand. Be sure to arrive early, as this event is likely to draw thousands of people.
Hope to see you there!