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After the "Improve the contributor experience" session at the past Qt Contributors Summit, many ideas came out related to an overall improvement to the contribution experience, mainly focused on new people joining the Qt Project. One of the topics was Communication, from which we (qt project people) discussed together with some KDE folks and agreed that bringing the Qt and KDE communities closer was a good idea, mainly based on the good experience KDE has currently on the platform. We have a good opportunity to do this via a bridge from our newly created Libera.chat IRC channels, to KDE's Matrix Instance. During the QtCS, we tried this out, and mirrored the #qt-cs IRC channel to Matrix: https://go.kde.org/matrix/#/#qt-cs:kde.org and according to the people that participated in the session the experience was nice, and it might be worth to bridge all the other #qt-* channels on IRC. Read more about Matrix: https://matrix.org/ Read more about KDE's Matrix Instance: https://community.kde.org/Matrix Implications ------------ If you prefer IRC, it's totally fine, this change would only imply that you will get more people on IRC to interact with. If you want to move to Matrix completely, this change will enable you to stay in touch with folks on the IRC channels. Permissions work different on Matrix than IRC, but with the current list of moderators in the #qt- domain we can easily assign permissions to people on the Matrix channels accordingly. Let's keep the discussion of other communication platforms outside this thread, while they might be valid, it's out of the scope of this proposal. Question -------- I would like to ask the Qt Project if you agree or disagree with the proposal to mirror all the #qt-* channels from Libera.chat to KDE's Matrix Instance. If we don't have unresolved disagreements, I'd say we can proceed with the mirroring Monday next week, but if there are concerns, I would prefer to address them first. Cheers -- Dr. Cristián Maureira-Fredes R&D Manager The Qt Company GmbH Erich-Thilo-Str. 10 D-12489 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Jouni Lintunen Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development