On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 6:11 PM Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones(a)redhat.com
> wrote:
> 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?
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/the-future-of-real-time-chat-discu...
>
> 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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