hey ~teammates,
i've set up a system znc instance that anyone is welcome to use. it's configured to authenticate with your shell password. it was sent to you in the welcome mail, but can be recovered by an admin if necessary.
check out https://znc.tilde.team/ and log in to configure your settings as needed. to connect to our irc, add a network as localhost.
if you don't want to use the web interface, you can connect your irc client to znc.tilde.team on port 6699 with ssl. see /znc help for more info.
holler here on the mailing list or directly on irc if you need help or have other questions. the znc wiki also has lots of good information: https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC
~ben