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 Get involved
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-If you have questions or feedback, join the
-[mailing list](https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kpatch) and say hi.
+If you have questions or feedback, join the #kpatch IRC channel on freenode and
+say hi.  We also have a [mailing list](https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kpatch).
 
 Contributions are very welcome.  Feel free to open issues or PRs on github.
 For big PRs, it's a good idea to discuss them first in github issues or on the