new section: Getting Help on IRC

docs/overview.rst

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Overview
 ========
 
+Guided Tour
+-----------
+
 The :doc:`installation` has some pointers to common ways of installing
 rTorrent on your machine. It does not provide yet another way to do that,
 because there already are plentiful and redundant sources out there.
@@ -16,3 +19,14 @@ from the outside, via the XMLRPC protocol.
 
 The :doc:`cmd-ref` chapter lists all relevant XMLRPC and ‘private’ commands
 of *rTorrent* with a short explanation.
+
+
+Getting Help on IRC
+-------------------
+
+The `unofficial help & support channel for rTorrent`_ (`webchat`_) can
+be found on the `freenode.net IRC network`_.
+
+.. _unofficial help & support channel for rTorrent: irc://irc.freenode.net/rtorrent
+.. _webchat: https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23%23rtorrent
+.. _freenode.net IRC network: http://freenode.net/