Hello Martin, hi most communicative SDR community to ever chatter away, in case you're trying to set up your own Matrix client: the homeserver is gnuradio.matrix.ungleich.cloud .
Looking forward to seeing everyone! Best regards, Marcus On 04.05.20 18:25, Martin Braun wrote: > Hi all, > > for a while now, we've been discussing what to do about our Slack chat > service. It was very clear that we needed to do something: Our free plan > only kept a very short history, the non-free plan was pricey, and Slack > itself came with a lot of baggage (mostly related to privacy issues, and > the fact that the chat logs, even though we we couldn't see them, were > hosted on a server we don't own). > > With the upcoming virtual GRCon, we wanted to get our chat solution > sorted out pretty quickly, which is one reason why we made an effort to > speed up the process and push out a replacement service ASAP.The bottom > line is that we will be moving to a Matrix-based solution. Go to > https://chat.gnuradio.org to join our Matrix server. > > On https://www.gnuradio.org/blog/2020-04-27-moving-to-the-matrix/, you > can find the full announcement, and how we came to the conclusion of > choosing Matrix, as well as some details of how we're set up. > > A personal note from a community standpoint: We have received some > criticism about how we made this decision without much community > involvement. And yes, that's true, we could have done this better. The > root cause, I would wager a guess, was procrastinating on the decision > until we really needed to sort this out. I would like to ask everyone > who wants to participate in the GNU Radio chat to give it a shot, and > provide constructive feedback other than "can we have giphys". > > All things considered, Matrix brings a lot to the table: We can host it > ourselves (meaning, we have control over chat logs and the data), it is > an open standard, and thus supports many different clients, including > web and mobile, which help support people's different preferences and > personal requirements. > > Again, for more details check out the blog post. > > Cheers! > > Martin > >
