On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 4:03 PM Joshua Stone via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
Having a text chat of our own would certainly help improve participation -- I think Matrix would be a good option here because it has many nice features and has a fairly polished user experience:
- Numerous clients available on desktop, mobile, and web ( https://matrix.org/clients/) - Persistent chat history - Link previews - Various bots to choose from for adding functionality ( https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bots/) - User moderation - Server federation - Self-hosting available, both client and server are completely FOSS - File sharing - Voice/video calls
I've got some ideas in this area if anyone would like to work together on a project. I've got the start of a small private cloud, and I'm working on building infrastructure for hosting Diaspora/Friendica social networks anyways. Adding an additional technology could fit in pretty well.