Hi,
the discussions in IRC chat about the planned foundation are
logged now thanks to Gary Sherman from the QGIS team:
http://logs.qgis.org/geofoundation/
IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#geofoundation
Markus
PS: A nice client is "chatzilla"
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/rt-messaging/chatzilla/
others are listed here:
http://tikiwiki.org/ConnectingToIrc
PPS: GRASS chat at
irc://irc.freenode.net/grass