Before hosting something new - have you considered using matrix.org? It's an IM project which is managed and maintained, was recently adopted by Mozilla to replace their IRC network, and previously was adopted by the KDE project and the French Government. They were at OggCamp as well. If people *want* to self-host their own "homeserver", they can access the room or rooms via a federation service, and there are also "bridges" into many IRC networks, if that's a desirable option too.
Also, for fun and giggles, Matrix was developed by a telecoms provider to (sort of) replace SIP. As such, you can run voice and video calls (including VR video calls) over Matrix too :) Regards, -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs @jontheniceguy everywhere... https://jon.sprig.gs On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 at 10:03, Ken Fallon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > At FOSDEM we put a chat group together to more effectively communicate > with the participants there. The group then expanded to cover some who > was following along from home. > > Since then there has been a discussion as to a more Free type of > communication channel. > See http://hackerpublicradio.org/series.php?id=108 > > Our _almost_ host Marshall put up a snikket server, and some of the > other FOSDEMmers are testing a HPR General Chat channel there. Snikket > is a new xmpp server based off of the prosody code. The main benefit of > snikket right now is that it has the ability to work across multiple > devices, so you can start a chat on your phone and it will be synced > across all your clients that are signed into the account. Registration > on fossch.at is currently closed but you can connect to > [email protected] using your existing xmpp id while we > figure out the best way to open registration. > > Your thoughts on this in particular, and HPR on Social Media in general > would be appreciated. > > -- > Regards, > > Ken Fallon > http://kenfallon.com > http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=30 > > _______________________________________________ > Hpr mailing list > [email protected] > http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org >
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