Hi Anthony, Welcome to RIOT and thanks for your suggestions.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 02:03:05PM -0500, Anthony Merlino wrote: > I am a relatively new user to Riot OS. I understand that this type of > proposal from a new user may be frowned upon or unwarranted. So I understand > if this idea gets shot down and closed. However, I would like to see if > there is any interest in using Gitter rather than freednode and the mailing > lists (or maybe the mailing lists stay in parallel) for developers and users > to chat. I would certainly not drop any of our current communication channels because they have proven to work well and are based on established open standard communication protocols. > I have worked with other open source projects (ardupilot for one) that use > Gitter for real-time interactions between developers and with users. The > interface is clean and easy to use, integrates with GitHub nicely, and has > infinite message persistence. I've never heard of Gitter before. What kind of protocol does it use? Which client exist? Can you provide at least a pointer to it? > Does anyone else think this would be a big improvement in helping the > community grow? As I have never heard of this tool before, I have my doubts, but I know that I'm not always up-to-date when it comes to these type of tools. For me E-Mail is still the best communication channel in 90% of all cases. Cheers, Oleg P.S. If you want to follow the discussion, you probably want to subscribe to the mailing list. -- The best thing about CSS jokes is that they are misunderstood and taken incorrectly by Internet Explorer.
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