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As I mentioned above, a. the neovim project has already made heavy use of a gitter/IRC translation bot (bridge) at https://github.com/finnp/gitter-irc-bot and b. there are tools to scrape gitter history in existence, making the fact that they're proprietary fairly irrelevant. The bot requires a server on which to run and github credentials for the project. As a response to your comment about real-time messaging, I think there's space for different styles of communication. Sometimes you don't want structured discussions. This is especially true for newbies, but sometimes everyone wants a low-latency discussion where not every sentence counts. I've found gitter to be ideal for this, much more so than IRC (which has a high barrier-of-entry). I'll enquire on IRC (just connecting requires me using an annoying service like IRCCloud, which shows the problem -- I can't even post the question and get a notification about a response.), but people using the status quo tend to favor the status quo, so my hopes aren't so high. Creating the gitter room is effortless, so I recommend doing it regardless as an experiment. Worst case, we don't advertise it, and shut it down later on. On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Gabriel Scherer wrote: > I'm personally not enthusiastic about real-time synchronous messaging (for > the already mentioned reason that it does not produced structured, reusable > content), and I think it would be nice to gather the opinion of the people > that populate the IRC channel today. > (Plus gitter.im is a proprietary, for-profit platform, meh.) > > Yotam, would you be willing to go on IRC and have a chat about a gitter.im > room with the chan, to see what they think? > > It would also be nice to have a gitter/IRC bridge (I hear that this exists). > Who would be volunteering to take care of the gitter stuff and make sure > that the bridge works properly? > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Jesse Haber-Kucharsky > wrote: >> >> I think a Gitter room could be a great experiment, especially since OCaml >> is hosted on GitHub. >> >> I have seen the Gitter rooms for projects in the Scala ecosystem like >> Shapeless and Cats become vibrant and helpful spaces, and chat rooms have >> fewer psychological barriers to entry than mailing lists. >> >> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Yotam Barnoy >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Gabriel Scherer >>> wrote: >>> > https://vector.im/beta/#/room/#freenode_#ocaml:matrix.org >>> >>> How about we try to open a gitter room for ocaml/ocaml, and see how it >>> does? My hunch is that it'll do a lot better than IRC for many >>> reasons, but I could be wrong. >>> >>> -- >>> Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: >>> https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list >>> Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners >>> Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs >> >> >