Just a quick note that the #dataflow channel still exists and is more active than ever. The number of people logged in rarely goes under 10 people nowadays. It's currently 16.
Note that the lowest amount of talking seems to occur between 08.00 and 12.00 UTC (not sure...), but apart from that, discussions do occur randomly any time, as long as someone brings an interesting topic and the others didn't go to sleep (or work or etc) with their client open =)
channel #freenode network irc.freenode.net port 6667
The usual languages of the channel are English, German, French; you may use any of those or any other but be conscious that English is the one that reaches the best audience!
see you there.
Mathieu Bouchard -=- Montréal QC Canada -=- http://artengine.ca/matju