Heya, I understood that it was a bit difficult with IRC to orchestrate the participants on the last Sprint. I am not so much worried about the old timers (not sure they need a Sprint in the first place) but the newcomers certainly benefit from something less clumsy and an integration of sound and vision (https://xkcd.com/1782/). And if we indeed plan to have some fancier presentation by some upstream devs then, well, in my very humble opinion IRC is just a no-go.
There is https://discord.com/open-source out there which I started to like. There are some BOINC and Gridcoin channels via which I got in contact. Any better ideas on your sides? Best, Steffen