Thanks for bringing this to the ComDev mailing list, Austin. As part of the Beam Summit org team, I am in strong favour of making this part of the ASF Slack with the goal of growing the Beam community there and expose people to the ASF overall, over splintering the community over different Slack channels - this with the assumption in mind that it is ok from an infrastructure POV. As community events grow (and hopefully budget with it), I'd even propose we try and share burden of cost in that direction in the future.
On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 at 15:49, Austin Bennett <whatwouldausti...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Julian, > > Ultimately, my question comes down to: is it OK to point people interested > in events for specific (in this case Beam) events to the communication > platform used by the wider asf community. I figure it is ideal to expand > the overall Apache tent/community. Though there are certainly tradeoffs. > > Unless needed, the question of which platform for the foundation to use > seems a separate discussion. > > Cheers, > Austin > > > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 9:03 AM Julian Foad <julianf...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On behalf of FOSS fans everywhere: please seriously consider using > > [Matrix], the Open federated standard system. It's perfect for this > > sort of community, with bridges to Slack and IRC and many other systems. > > In the last two years Matrix has leapt ahead of other contenders like > > XMPP and is becoming the Open system of choice adopted by organisations > > from Mozilla to universities and governments. > > > > It's a great platform for integrating the chat side, and even the > > presentation side through Jitsi, of online events. The matrix devs do > > it and wrote a blog post describing how: > > https://matrix.org/docs/guides/running-online-events > > > > Before any of us risks pushing another FOSS community into the > > proprietary silo trap, let's pause and consider how we all would in fact > > be paying for it if it's "free as in beer". I've been watching this > > space since five years ago when the FOSS alternatives were weak, and now > > I'm really excited to see that, with the overwhelming global need for > > such a thing, Matrix has grown strong and is accelerating rapidly. > > > > I would strongly encourage the ASF membership to deploy their own Matrix > > server ASAP as it's the perfect fit for this sort of organization. I > > run a personal Matrix server and benefit from modern multi-device > > single-app access to all my IRC messaging (via a public bridge), all my > > WhatsApp messaging (via a private bridge), some private notes like > > diaries, as well as federated native Matrix messaging. > > > > I can give more detailed advice and put you in touch with specific > > contacts. > > > > - Julian > > > > > > See: > > > > * https://matrix.org -- for an introduction to Matrix > > > > * https://matrix.org/docs/guides/running-online-events -- see above > > > > * https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/ -- for an introduction to > > the top company/brand of Matrix services and apps (a bit like how Redhat > > is to Linux) > > > > * https://sifted.eu/articles/element-germany-deal/ -- news about big > > government deployments of Matrix > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > > > >
