diff --git a/intra-team-communication.rst b/intra-team-communication.rst
index 8d35ccb..af85fd0 100644
--- a/intra-team-communication.rst
+++ b/intra-team-communication.rst
@@ -14,13 +14,16 @@ IRC
 
 Agaric also maintains a channel for worker-owners only.
 
-Edit or add.  That's the primary instruction.  You can edit directly on `gitlab.com/agaric/documentation <https://gitlab.com/agaric/documentation>` (for example, the edit link on this page takes you to `gitlab.com/agaric/documentation/blob/master/documentation.rst <https://gitlab.com/agaric/documentation/blob/master/documentation.rst>`).  If you aren't a member of Agaric, GitLab will helpfully offer to fork the documentation to your own namespace so that you can make a merge request with your documentation suggestion.
+Freenode has given us operator privileges for these channels.  To use it, we need to register:
+
+```
+/msg nickserv identify mlncn pa55w0rd
+/chanserv op #agaric mlncn
+```
 
 .. note::
     Agarics can get more detail ` <https://gitlab.com/agaric/internal/wikis/Communication-Channels>`.
 
-anyone can come and clean up formatting later.
-
 Principles
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