Thanks, Julian, Ultimately, my question comes down to: is it OK to point people interested in events for specific (in this case Beam) events to the communication platform used by the wider asf community. I figure it is ideal to expand the overall Apache tent/community. Though there are certainly tradeoffs.
Unless needed, the question of which platform for the foundation to use seems a separate discussion. Cheers, Austin On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 9:03 AM Julian Foad <julianf...@apache.org> wrote: > On behalf of FOSS fans everywhere: please seriously consider using > [Matrix], the Open federated standard system. It's perfect for this > sort of community, with bridges to Slack and IRC and many other systems. > In the last two years Matrix has leapt ahead of other contenders like > XMPP and is becoming the Open system of choice adopted by organisations > from Mozilla to universities and governments. > > It's a great platform for integrating the chat side, and even the > presentation side through Jitsi, of online events. The matrix devs do > it and wrote a blog post describing how: > https://matrix.org/docs/guides/running-online-events > > Before any of us risks pushing another FOSS community into the > proprietary silo trap, let's pause and consider how we all would in fact > be paying for it if it's "free as in beer". I've been watching this > space since five years ago when the FOSS alternatives were weak, and now > I'm really excited to see that, with the overwhelming global need for > such a thing, Matrix has grown strong and is accelerating rapidly. > > I would strongly encourage the ASF membership to deploy their own Matrix > server ASAP as it's the perfect fit for this sort of organization. I > run a personal Matrix server and benefit from modern multi-device > single-app access to all my IRC messaging (via a public bridge), all my > WhatsApp messaging (via a private bridge), some private notes like > diaries, as well as federated native Matrix messaging. > > I can give more detailed advice and put you in touch with specific > contacts. > > - Julian > > > See: > > * https://matrix.org -- for an introduction to Matrix > > * https://matrix.org/docs/guides/running-online-events -- see above > > * https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/ -- for an introduction to > the top company/brand of Matrix services and apps (a bit like how Redhat > is to Linux) > > * https://sifted.eu/articles/element-germany-deal/ -- news about big > government deployments of Matrix > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
