Hi, On https://taverna.incubator.apache.org/community/irc
we suggest the #taverna IRC channel as an informal chat. However by its synchronous nature and our various time zones it has not really seen any use. I think it's good that we primarily use the mailing list. Should we remove the above IRC page from our website? One web-chat that is very popular in open source communities these days is Gitter, which is free for open source communities. It's semi-asynchronous - as it keeps the backlog for you (channels are open by default), and you can turn on/off email notifications. Some of the nice features are how you can paste code examples etc. See for instance how it's used by the Common Workflow Language community: https://gitter.im/common-workflow-language/common-workflow-language However to log in and chat you need either a GitHub or Twitter account. So it's not as open as IRC. (but you can use https://irc.gitter.im/ with an IRC client if you have an account!) As a test I made an Apache Taverna Gitter room: https://gitter.im/apache/taverna What do you think? As always - remember: "If it didn't happen on the mailing list, it didn't happen!" -- Stian Soiland-Reyes http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
