IRC?

This is kind of embarrassing, but I've never actually used IRC.  It's not hard.  Ubuntu comes with Empathy, but apparently it sucks.  We'll use XChat instead.

Steps

1. Update apt-get (as always). sudo apt-get update
2. Install xchat-gnome. sudo apt-get install xchat-gnome
3. Open XChat-GNOME IRC Chat from the Dash Home button.  If you use a terminal, you can't use it for anything else while XChat is open.

Now join #mean.io.