Time appropriate greeting Aaron Thank you for your email to the Kubuntu Council. The primary channel for communication for Kubuntu is IRC, and has proved a staple for many years. We have bridges to Telegram, and also an integration on kubuntu.org.
However, recently Simon Quigley, Aaron Honeycutt and myself have experimented with Matrix. Similarly to you, I personally had a Matrix account on matrix.org for a few years, but have used it rarely. I recently created @rick-timmis:ubuntu.com which matches nicely to my Launchpad account, and with some help from Simon created a Kubuntu Space and three rooms [Kubuntu Development, Kubuntu Discussion and Kubuntu Support] these rooms are pretty quiet at present. A quick check on IRC as I write shows that #kubuntu has around 100 users signed in, #kubuntu-devel around 50. You mentioned an IRC Bridge, and I believe this would be an important component of any migration. My view as a Kubuntu Councillor is that Matrix does offer modern features, beyond the text chat of IRC, and I see these as valuable features for developing our community. I am committed to being available and active in the Matrix Kubuntu Space and Rooms I look forward to the views of my fellow councillors Best Wishes Rick On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 at 21:34, Aaron Rainbolt <[email protected]> wrote: > Good morning/evening, and thanks for your time. > > As you probably know, Ubuntu now has an official Matrix homeserver for > projects and Ubuntu members to use. While it has had some rough edges > that needed sorted out (federation being the main one), those rough > edges are mostly fixed now. I and a large number of Ubuntu contributors > are now regularly using the new homeserver, and I've switched over to it > as my sole Matrix account, keeping my older matrix.org account around > only for emergencies or niche uses (testing, for instance). It's been > stable enough for everything I need. The only serious rough edge that > still needs fixed is IRC bridging, and the Matrix Council is cooperating > with Canonical IS and the Libera.Chat admins to get that going. > > The Lubuntu project has migrated our chats to Matrix with great success, > and have only been using IRC sporadically since then. Since more and > more of the Ubuntu world is migrating to Matrix, it might be in > Kubuntu's best interest to migrate to Matrix also, so that we have one > unified communication platform for everything. This will not exclude the > use of IRC, and once bridging is enabled the Matrix and IRC platforms > should interoperate as well or better as when the EMS > Matrix-to-Libera.Chat bridge was active. > > I am an Ubuntu Matrix Operator, and work closely with the Matrix Council > to help work out solutions to any issues that are encountered with the > new Matrix homeserver and the communities that migrate there. If you > have any questions, you can feel free to contact either me or the > members of the Matrix Council (who are listed at > https://launchpad.net/~matrix-council/+members#active). > > Thanks for your consideration, and have a good day! > > -- > Aaron Rainbolt > Lubuntu Developer and Ubuntu Matrix Operator > Matrix: @arraybolt3:matrix.org > IRC: arraybolt3 on irc.libera.chat > GitHub: https://github.com/ArrayBolt3 > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-council > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-council > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Best Wishes Rick *For additional info, social, blog and contact details drop by my website.* *ricktimmis.com* <http://www.ricktimmis.com>
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