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. 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? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-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/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
