I received an email 17 days before the official announcement
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Maathavan
@MaathavanJkr
We invite all the Students who has participated in the GCI 2019 contest to a friendly, experience sharing irc channel. So who are interested in talking to fellow org students can join in our channel. Network: irc.freenode.net Channel: ##gci-2019 dont confuse with #gci-2019