On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:22:26PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> [I posted to the Fedora Council list, but reposting here for wider
> distribution.]
>
> As mentioned, we're looking at moving the Fedora Council's main chat to
> Matrix. And as part of that, we're considering a hosted Element server --
> which obviously could go quite beyond just #fedora-council. Neal suggested a
> video meeting to talk with interested people about this, and so I set up
> this when-is-good
>
> http://whenisgood.net/k5brwbd
>
> Anyone interested in a preliminary chat about all of this, please sign up
> with your FAS id and availability. Nothing is sent in stone or decided
> already, although I must say I'm pretty excited about Element's open source
> software-as-a-service offering based on what I've heard from them so far.
There's quite a lot wrong here - a video meeting(!) to discuss
dropping a commonly used and well established channel of
communication. Well, I guess at least you didn't decide to use the
proprietary awfulness of Slack.
Rich, IRC is not being dropped, it is being bridged to modern, "IRC-native" (for lack of better word in my vocabulary) platform. Contributors who prefer to stay on IRC are welcome to do so and won't really notice any difference.
Couldn't you just talk about this on email?
Let me start off:
What's the reason why hosting your own server for a fairly uncommon
chat protocol is better than continuing to use IRC?
I too love dinosaurs... but I also work on 4 different computers and two mobile devices every day. Having to literally switch hardware to participate in IRC meetings is pain in the ass for some of our contributors (myself included.)
Rich.
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