derhuerst
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5 years ago Instead, chat rooms like IRC, Jabber/XMPP, Matrix, Telegram and others do. Let me propose a setup influenced by my role as a Matrix server operator for F-Droid:
tl:dr: We set up a channel which is accessible via IRC, XMPP, Matrix and Telegram
I'm all for open (as in easily accessible and F(L)OSS) communication channels. Because there's a hosted Matrix instance already, I don't see any significant disadvantages in using it.
On hackint.org we set up an IRC channel which gets automatically bridged to Jabber/XMPP. On matrix.org we set up a room which gets bridged to that IRC channel at hackint.
Coming from Matrix, we can build whatever bridge people would like to services like Gitter and Slack.
Just, this would be very nice. There's a public transport Slack and a public-transport Gitter channel we created a while ago that we should connect.
schildbach
AltNico
d3d9
ialokim
At 35C3 we (@ialokim, @schildbach, @derhuerst and others whose nicknames I don't know) did an extended public transport meeting, where the idea came up to set up a communication channel for the community around public transport projects built with open data and FLOSS.
The problem others described was that there are many people doing cool stuff with public transport, but it lacks communication between them which results in work being done multiple times. We thought that we could improve this by providing some form of communication channel which is not specific to one system, but rather a meta platform for everything related to public transport + open data + FLOSS.
The idea is that in this channel people could show up if they have questions like "Do you know an API to get transport data for this region?" or "Did someone ever built a service for this use case?". Also, people should be able to discuss problems they encounter when building stuff, announce projects they built, and do all other things one can imagine.
One problem we saw was that with the global scope of this channel it could become very noisy, with information getting quickly lost. In case this happens, I suggest to set up stuff like a wiki where information can get stored.
We also discussed the type of communication protocol to use. Please note that everything following now is out of my subjective perspective and doesn't have to be the consensus of that meet up. In my humble opinion, email lists don't suite the described use case well. Instead, chat rooms like IRC, Jabber/XMPP, Matrix, Telegram and others do. Let me propose a setup influenced by my role as a Matrix server operator for F-Droid:
tl:dr: We set up a channel which is accessible via IRC, XMPP, Matrix and Telegram
On hackint.org we set up an IRC channel which gets automatically bridged to Jabber/XMPP. On matrix.org we set up a room which gets bridged to that IRC channel at hackint. From that Matrix room we build a bridge to a Telegram group. Excepting the XMPP bridge, this is exactly the setup we use at F-Droid and it works pretty well for us for quite some time.
Coming from Matrix, we can build whatever bridge people would like to services like Gitter and Slack.
Maybe something like this already exists. If so, please post to this issue linking to more information.
Please notify other people who could be interested in this.
(Pinging people from MapaNica (@mayorgatellez, @porfiriopaiz, @roirobo, @xamanu, @xirapo) and osm2gtfs (@jamescr, @grote, @nlehuby, @prhod, @nicolasiensen))
By the way, happy new year to everybody!