From Free State Linux Users Group

There is a channel on the Freenode server to which you can connect and use to contact other members of FLUG in realtime.

IRC settings

If you need to manually edit your IRC client you can use the settings as follows:

Internet Relay Chat Network: Freenode
	Server:	irc://irc.freenode.net
	Channel/s:	#flug.org.za #ubuntu-za