There are already other efforts underway for empeg IRC channels, on different servers. There was an efnet #empeg channel, and also a more recent one on irc.openprojects.net for which we even implemented a knowledge bot named Sanders.

The problem with doing this is getting everyone to settle on one server/network/channel. There was talk of including IRC built into Jemplode and having it hard-code the server so that everyone would be on the same channel and it would be permanent. So far, that hasn't happened.