As mentioned, we're looking at moving the Fedora Council's main chat to Matrix. And as part of that, we're considering a hosted Element server -- which obviously could go quite beyond just #fedora-council. Neal suggested a video meeting to talk with interested people about this, and so I set up this when-is-good
Anyone interested in a preliminary chat about all of this, please sign up with your FAS id and availability. Nothing is sent in stone or decided already, although I must say I'm pretty excited about Element's open source software-as-a-service offering based on what I've heard from them so far.
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 12:22 PM Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
As mentioned, we're looking at moving the Fedora Council's main chat to Matrix. And as part of that, we're considering a hosted Element server -- which obviously could go quite beyond just #fedora-council. Neal suggested a video meeting to talk with interested people about this, and so I set up this when-is-good
Anyone interested in a preliminary chat about all of this, please sign up with your FAS id and availability. Nothing is sent in stone or decided already, although I must say I'm pretty excited about Element's open source software-as-a-service offering based on what I've heard from them so far.
Dumb question: if I, as an old man that likes to yell at clouds, wanted to log into a fedora focused matrix server/channel, is there a test instance or something?
What would you point people that have never used matrix before at so they can become familiar with this potentially scary new thing that isn't what they are used to?
josh
Hi Josh,
On 11/19/20 7:44 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
What would you point people that have never used matrix before at so they can become familiar with this potentially scary new thing that isn't what they are used to?
I suggest looking into the production matrix.org instance hosted by Element. You can make an account on element.io:
https://element.io/get-started
There are web apps, mobile app (iOS and Android), and a desktop client. The best way to get the desktop client on Linux is via Flatpak:
flatpak install im.riot.Riot # Riot is the old name for the client
Once you make an account, you should be able to find `#fedora-devel:matrix.org` with the existing Fedora Devel room bridged to IRC. (Thanks nb for making this finally happen!)
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 02:53:53AM +0000, foss@jwf.io wrote:
I suggest looking into the production matrix.org instance hosted by Element. You can make an account on element.io: https://element.io/get-started There are web apps, mobile app (iOS and Android), and a desktop client.
Yeah, this. The plan, as of right now, is to migrate all of the existing rooms on matrix.org to our hosted instance. This will give you a reasonable trial, though.
Looks like Thursday at 4pm US/Eastern works best for most people (Everyone who responded but @pingou and @davdunc — sorry.)
We’ll meet at https://meet.jit.si/fedora-matrix-brainstorm, unless jitsi can’t handle it, in which case we’ll fall back to https://bluejeans.com/u/mattdm
I know there's some irony in doing a video meeting to discuss a text meeting, but irony isn't all bad. I'll make sure we take notes and post a summary.
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/council/2020/12/3/#m9867
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