ircd-seven has been developed to meet the policy needs of the
freenode IRC network. The ircd is based closely on Charybdis
(http://www.atheme.org/project/charybdis) which in turn is an
evolution from ircd-ratbox. Charybdis has a dedicated, large
and active development team with whom we have worked closely
throughout the development of ircd-seven.
 
ircd-seven development is currently led by Stephen Bennett
(spb, stephen -at- freenode.net)
 
The following people have contributed to this ircd-seven release,
in nick-alphabetical order:
 
AndroSyn, Aaron Sethman <androsyn -at- ratbox.org>
anfl, Lee Hardy <lee -at- leeh.co.uk>
beu, Elfyn McBratney <elfyn.mcbratney -at- gmail.com>
dwr, Valery Yatsko <dwr -at- shadowircd.net> 
Entrope, Michael Poole <mdpoole -at- trolius.org> 
gxti, Michael Tharp <gxti -at- partiallystapled.com>
jilles, Jilles Tjoelker <jilles -at- stack.nl>
nenolod, William Pitcock <nenolod -at- nenolod.net>
jdhore, JD Horelick <jdhore1 -at- gmail.com>
mr_flea, Keith Buck <mr_flea -at- esper.net>
Taros, Brett Greenham <taros -at- shadowircd.net>
ThaPrince, Jon Christopherson <jon -at- vile.com>
twincest, River Tarnell <river -at- attenuate.org>
w00t, Robin Burchell <surreal.w00t -at- gmail.com>
 
Visit the freenode website at: https://freenode.net
Visit us on IRC at: irc.freenode.net #freenode-seven