Project Pokémon has a good amount of activity involved with research and development. You can connect to the chat with the details below if you want to use your own IRC client. If you don't want to download an IRC client or use this one, you can visit this link here to use an alternative built-in one.

Connection Details:

Channel: #ProjectPokemon

Hostname/Network: irc.projectpokemon.org

Port: 6667