[postgis-devel] Advertising #postgis:osgeo.org as the official chat room

[Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski]

In addition to that, I am just IP-banned from freenode so we just have to
move:

[13:25] [Error] Connection to server chat.freenode.net (port 8001) lost:
Connection refused.
[13:25] [Info] Trying to reconnect to chat.freenode.net (port 8001) in 10
seconds.
[13:25] [Info] Looking for server chat.freenode.net (port 8001)...

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 12:34 PM Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:

> Up to now the "official" chat room has been advertised as being an
> IRC channel on Freenode, but recently a Libera.chat network was funded
> by freenode staff people due to a policy change in management of the
> Freenode network. My account on freenode, and that of many others,
> have been deleted (without my intervention, it was just forced) so
> it's not much of a political choice whether to move or not, it's just
> that we don't seem to be welcome anymore on Freenode.
>
> I've thus registered a #postgis IRC channel on libera.chat and
> repointed the matrix bridge to that network.
>
> Those of you using Matrix will not be affected.
>
> As I know many are not using IRC these days, and since OSGeo now
> hosts it's own Matrix homeserver (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Matrix),
> how about advertising the *matrix* room as the official chat channel ?
>
> I've implemented this idea in this PR for the website:
> https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/postgis/postgis.net/pulls/2
>
>
> --strk;
>
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Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski
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