We can add this to the agenda for the Dec. 23 meeting. On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 11:13 PM Srevin Saju <[email protected]> wrote: > > G'day! > > I have a topic, which perhaps needs discussion, > > We have been using IRC for many years. Recently, some of our > communication moved to Slack, and some to Jitsi. What is Sugar Labs's > idea of a best, unified communication platform which it should recommend > to new developers. Right now, all the guides point directly to IRC, most > new developers, who are interested to contributing to Sugar drop a > message to an IRC channel, and almost never get a reply. This is > possibly because the communication has diversified, or because of a > community split on the basis of communication medium. > > Recently, many new developers told us of the difficulties of using IRC > clients, the need for Bouncers, etc. We (some of us) suggested them to > use a Matrix client to connect to #sugar, and indeed they are quite > satisfied with new mode of communication.. The Matrix protocol. > > The Matrix protocol is interesting. Sugar had a matrix channel for many > years. Recently we set up a bridge between the matrix channel > (#sugar:matrix.org) and the IRC irc.freenode.net channel, i.e (#sugar), > which helped a few developers to keep connected to the IRC channel > without a bouncer and also make use of newer clients for mobile, for > example Element Android (available on F-droid, Google Play), and > Element iOS. Element / Matrix has a intuitive web client which supports > reactions and better formatting as compared to IRC, and is the best > place for a developer to start contributing. The most interesting and > useful feature is the IRC bridge, which helps to make use of the best of > Matrix and maintain the connection between the IRC channel and the > Matrix channel. The bridge is a tool which helps to convert the IRC > protocol to the matrix protocol and vice versa. > > Topic of discussion, we a Sugar Gitter channel, Sugarizer Matrix > channel, etc. Matrix has the support to integrate everything to a single > channel. What is your opinion? > > Interesting points of discussion and helpful material: > > * Pull request to add Matrix as a communication medium > (https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/pull/203) > * Matrix Sugar Labs wiki page (https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Matrix) > * Official matrix-irc guide > (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/wiki/Guide:-How-to-use-Matrix-to-participate-in-IRC-rooms) > > As of now, many popular open source communities use Matrix as the main > mode of communication, and all the sister nodes bridged to the matrix > network > For example: > > * Fedora > * KDE > * Mozilla Thunderbird > > It would be cool, if we discuss this among a wider range of community, > putting a lot of people's idea rather than two of us discussion [cited]. > So, I hope this topic, would be a good candidate for the next SLOBS meeting. > > Regards > > On 12/9/20 11:48 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > The date and time of the next SLOBs Meeting > > <https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Next_meeting> is > > 12-23-20 at 19:30 UTC. > > > > For the next meeting, the agenda is up at > > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2020-12-23 > > <https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2020-12-23> > > We will be discussing a possible "Sugar Labs Code-in", so it would be > > great to have your input. > > I recommend that, if you are interested in attending the meeting, you: > > 1. Mark your calendar. I do my best to send reminders, but today my > > email got trapped in spam and I did not have the time to troubleshoot. > > 2. Please let us know soon if you plan to attend so that we may send > > you a link in advance. Please send your request to > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > As for today's meeting minutes, they are up at: > > > > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2020-12-09 > > <https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2020-12-09> > > > > Best, > > Devin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > -- > Srevin Saju > Sugar Labs > https://www.sugarlabs.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
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