kubuntu-council team mailing list archive

[Rick Timmis <ricktimmis68@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <arraybolt3@xxxxxxxxx> 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
>
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Rick

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