Hi all. At today's Fedora Council "virtual face-to-face" meeting, we decided that it's time to move our discussion from this mailing list and IRC to more modern platforms: namely, Discourse via https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ and Matrix via ... something yet to be determined, but probably initially a channel on element.io and then eventually our own server. Some Fedora Teams, like the Magazine, have already moved from the mailing list, and noted a significant increase in visiblity and participation. The fact is, even those of us who proudly self-identify as "old school" are reluctant to sign up for yet-another-mailing-list these days. It's a serious barrier to project entry. And IRC ... it's served us well, but... it's also not kept up, and it's *long* been a problem we've seen in attracting new contributors. More and more new projects turn to Slack or Discord for their real-time discussions. I'd like us to move to something open source while such things are viable, and hopefully by doing so help them stay competitive. Since we don't have a Matrix server up and running, this is a little further off, but I wanted to mention it here. In any case, we plan to: * Bridge IRC and Matrix, so that you can stay on IRC and interact if that's your preference. Freenode isn't going away anytime soon! * Plan to port zodbot to be a Matrix-native bot, so we can have logged meetings, cookies-with-badges, adamw "firing" people, etc. * Retire this list for new posts (tentatively, starting December 1st), and instead direct conversation to https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/project/council-discuss/60 * Set up a bot to automatically post summaries of discussion from that category to this list, so that long-term subscribers aren't left out Note that unlike a "BB"-style web forum, you can interact with discussion.fedoraproject.org via email, including getting individual new posts and responding in your mail client. It isn't quite a first-class experience, though -- there are many features which are web only. Any questions about any of this? Anything I haven't thought of? -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list -- council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to council-discuss-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
