From president at linux.org.au Fri Jun 18 23:07:41 2021 From: president at linux.org.au (President, Linux Australia - Sae Ra Germaine) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 23:07:41 +1000 Subject: [Announce] Linux Australia and related communication channels Message-ID: <2d68e6f8-a346-9f4d-cfe4-5fbb2c22df24@linux.org.au> *Apologies for cross posting* Dear Everyone, After some lengthy yet snappy deliberations, I think Linux Australia has come up with a workable real-time chat solution that keeps everyone connected in some sort of way. Interestingly, our IRC/Matrix channels of communication are one of our more popular ways of engaging with our community and it is essential that we do the right thing and make sure we don?t segregate the community [0] by implementing yet another chat platform. I will talk about 2 specific modes of communication. These will/have been bridged so that they talk to each other. #Matrix TL;DR: we are staying, with more bridges! Matrix[1] will become our primary channel space. We have had a presence here for a while now, and are taking the opportunity to make this our official communication channel. For those new to Matrix, Element is a great multi-platform client to get started with.? Note that Matrix does not require you run your own home-server: just choose matrix.org as your home-server when setting up your account. We have registered a Linux Australia ?Public Space? as an experiment (as Spaces are still in Beta) but we think that this is a great way to centralise everything and make our Linux Australia community groups more discoverable. You can join the space via https://matrix.to/#/#linux-australia:matrix.org , from which you can see all our rooms (aka channels). All of our channels are also available in the directory, so you can join without using the space: * #linuxaus (https://matrix.to/#/#linuxaus:matrix.org ) * #linuxaus-lugs (https://matrix.to/#/#linuxaus-lugs:matrix.org ) * #linux.conf.au (https://matrix.to/#/#linux.conf.au:matrix.org ) #IRC TL;DR: we have moved to libera.chat and any channels there will be bridged to Matrix. Although Matrix will be our primary platform, we will be backwards compatible with IRC by bridging key Matrix rooms into their IRC equivalent. We have put in an application to the libera.chat team to create what?s called project and community groups (https://libera.chat/chanreg ) based around our major chat channels. Once this has been completed we will let everyone know where to point to (or not). Hopefully this shouldn?t take too long and we will be in touch as soon as we know more. #For those who aren?t in either Join us! We will be creating some documentation on our website about joining these specific channels shortly. If you have any questions please don?t hesitate to reach out to us via these methods: Email: council at linux.org.au IRC/Matrix: Myself - MsMaryMac Joel - jea/Joela Russell - rstuart Steve - evil_steve Thanks, Sae Ra [0] https://xkcd.com/1810/ [1] https://matrix.org/faq/ -- Sae Ra Germaine President Linux Australia president at linux.org.au http://linux.org.au Linux Australia Inc GPO Box 4788 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia ABN 56 987 117 479 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: