Before, during, and after the conference, you are encouraged to participate in the meta-conference on IRC. [http://www.freenode.net/ Freenode] is the official IRC network of ApacheCon. ApacheCon attendees tend to congregate on #apachecon. Note that our European conferences may also use the same IRC channels.
Note that general technical questions about the Apache webserver are usually held on #apache. Many individual ASF projects also have project-specific channels where they discuss technical or community issues about their projects.
In the past, there have also been per-room channels, with varying degrees of success. That might happen again. If DrBacchus or RoUS is on the channel, they're usually good people to ask for conference-related information.
See some of our OfficialLogos, which (with permission) you may use to link to our conference.