Hi all, I am back from winter break and I have more updates from the world of Matrix communications.
Temporary Matrix Council
We have a new, temporary Matrix Council. I want to encourage everyone here to read the great post from @merlijn-sebrechts . I also want to send special thanks to all those that offered to help with the temporary Matrix Council. @ulfnic @sarnold @nbuechner @merlijn-sebrechts Thank you. The temporary Matrix Council will soon announce elections. Stay tuned!
The Matrix council meets every week for the time being. First two meeting reports are available on the Ubuntu Discourse:
Matrix Council Meeting report: 4 January 2024
Matrix Council Meeting report: 11 January 2024
Charmhub migration
Charmhub migration from Mattermost to Matrix is still ongoing, full speed ahead. The Mattermost instance is currently scheduled to go read-only at the end of January 2024. Special thanks to @jnsgruk for the great support.
Bridging with IRC
As you can read in the weekly reports linked above, we had great conversations with the KDE community. They have been bridging IRC and Matrix with good success. We are working to deploy our self hosted bridge, while at the same time @nbuechner is working hard to run tests. Special thanks to Kenny from KDE for his energy and patience.
Full federation and room search
We are still working to enable full federation on our Matrix instance. Please be patient with us as we work on the federation proxy.
Room searching from federated servers is still not enabled but the issue was reported and it is being looked at. I will provide updates when both these issues make progress.
Documentation
We are working on documentation and processes. Our next focus is to create a clear set of documents for users, regarding room publishing and room moderation. @ulfnic contributed with a very useful document that explains How-to change the main address of a room or space to ubuntu.com
We are then going to focus our documentation efforts on moderators and defenders.
Stay engaged
If you see topics that interest you on the Matrix Council weekly reports, if you have the passion to help us grow Ubuntu’s presence on Matrix, or if you have questions regarding this project, I encourage to get involved here on Discourse. You can reply on this thread, on any of the Matrix Council meeting report threads. Alternatively, you can also get in touch on Matrix directly. This channel would be a great place: #matrix-ops:ubuntu.com