Recognizing Matrix as an official channel

[Farhan Khan]

Hi all,

Glad to have started the discussion. A few comments:

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020, at 5:23 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Why we would need this at all? Aren't mailing lists with archives not good enough, or even better?

In a nutshell, the idea is to facilitate communication up to modern norms. While I respectfully do not agree that email is sufficient, supposing that was the case, it is not what people currently use.

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020, at 6:37 PM, Dave Hayes wrote:
> There already exists one active channel and it does get used. I think the OP
> just wants an official stamp of approval and maybe a blurb on the webpage
> pointing to the channel.

Essentially, yes.

Interesting to hear about the other various clients. I used to use a plugin for WeeChat, so it was a seamless migration from IRC.

You can view public rooms via a browser, such as here: https://view.matrix.org/. This means we could potentially provide a permanent URL to a public chat room for reference, whereas IRC is ephemeral.

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020, at 8:01 PM, O'Connor, Daniel wrote:
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> > On 18 Aug 2020, at 05:50, Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:
> > 
> > 17.08.2020 21:36, Farhan Khan wrote:
> >> 
> >> I am a long-time IRC user. I see that FreeBSD recognizes the EFnet and FreeNode channels as official, as listed here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/IRC/Channels. While it continues to serve the community, there are major limitations and I feel that it might be time to migrate towards a replacement.
> >> 
> >> The "market" of communication going forward is clearly shifting towards more feature-ful protocols, such as Slack, Discord or Gitter. The only open-source and viable option in this class systems that I see Matrix. There is an active FreeBSD channel located at #FreeBSD:matrix.org, along with a few other BSD-related channels.
> >> 
> >> I propose making this an officially recognized channel for FreeBSD communication and encouraging migration from IRC to Matrix.
> > 
> > What is Matrix's level of support for FreeBSD?
> > Is there native FreeBSD client?
> > Is there native FreeBSD server?
> 
> The server is in ports - net/py-matrix-synapse
> A client is available also - net-im/nheko
> 
> I've only run the server on FreeBSD but it worked well enough.
> 
> --
> Daniel O'Connor
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
> -- Andrew Tanenbaum
> 
> 
> 

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Farhan Khan
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