We also have an IRC channel:
http://www.wlug.org/participate.html
Internet Relay Chat
Join the realtime chat on our IRC channel.
Connect your IRC client to irc.freenode.net
Join the #wlug-ma channel or join directly from this link: irc://irc.freenode.net/#wlug-ma.
See more information about Freenode and join the chat from your web browser
but maybe IRC is too old school--no one chats on it anymore.
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 04:03:14PM -0500, Joshua Stone via WLUG wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Last night's meeting was excellent, and I'd like say thanks again to
> Tim for giving me a ride home!
>
> Last night's discussion gave me ideas of ways we could improve general
> activity, increase attendence, and improve outreach efforts. Hosting a
> meetup.com group would be certainly improve discoverability, and
> getting in touch with WPI's computer science group would be great too.
>
> I think what a lot communities are doing nowadays is having a text chat
> format for users who want to communicate more easily over the internet,
> especially with mobile devices. As an example, there are Discord
> servers for Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, etc, and they have room sizes
> generally in the hundreds or even well over a thousand. Even before
> Discord they'd use IRC for providing support, posting updates, etc.
>
> 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 have a screenshot if anyone wants to see what a Matrix chat room
> would look like:
>
> https://i.imgur.com/aVILcWB.png
>
> Or you can join the room I made:
>
> https://matrix.to/#/!EiTljkvagZDFKfQfFu:matrix.org?via=matrix.org
>
> Alteratively, if you have a Matrix client already:
>
> #wlug:matrix.org
>
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> -Josh
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