[1] OFTC was founded at the end of 2001 by a group of experienced members of the open source and free software communities aiming to provide these communities with better communication, development, and support infrastructure.

OFTC is ruled by a written constitution and the staff elect the officers among each other using a voting mechanism.

[3] OFTC currently develops three projects for its purposes: "oftc-hybrid" (a fork of the Hybrid IRC daemon),[4] "oftc-ircservices" (the IRC services suite),[5] and "oftc-geodns" (a GeoIP DNS responder to handle user distribution across the servers).

[6] OFTC uses GitHub repositories to host its codebase and issue tracker.

[2] Prospective users of the software can find tarball releases at https://www.oftc.net/releases/, named according to semantic versioning.