Gitter chatroom?

Gitter chatroom?

[Brian Leung]

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Would it be possible to have a Gitter chatroom (gitter.im) for Pandoc? 
Anyone with a Github account can use it to sign into Gitter, and it also 
works with IRC.

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Gitter chatroom?

[Kolen Cheung]

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My guess is this community won't like that.

Response here is often pretty quick though.

Re: Gitter chatroom?

[Albert Krewinkel]

It occurred to me yesterday that people behind the great firewall of
china are unable to access google, and, in extension, google groups.

There is conflicting information on whether GitHub is accessible from
mainlaind China, but it seems like it is not blocked. Gitter.im is
accessible as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_China
https://www.comparitech.com/privacy-security-tools/blockedinchina/

Looking at people who stared pandoc on GitHub indicates that there are
quite a few Chinese users. I'm have no idea how pervasive VPN use is
among them. Should we be accommodating users behind the firewall
somehow?

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Re: Gitter chatroom?

[Kolen Cheung]

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Following the wiki link, it seems groups.google.com is not in the list. Can 
anyone confirm if they have access to this site?

On Monday, January 14, 2019 at 10:42:42 PM UTC-8, Albert Krewinkel wrote:
>
> It occurred to me yesterday that people behind the great firewall of 
> china are unable to access google, and, in extension, google groups. 
>
> There is conflicting information on whether GitHub is accessible from 
> mainlaind China, but it seems like it is not blocked. Gitter.im is 
> accessible as well. 
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_China 
> https://www.comparitech.com/privacy-security-tools/blockedinchina/ 
>
> Looking at people who stared pandoc on GitHub indicates that there are 
> quite a few Chinese users. I'm have no idea how pervasive VPN use is 
> among them. Should we be accommodating users behind the firewall 
> somehow? 
>
> -- 
> Albert Krewinkel 
> GPG: 8eed e3e2 e8c5 6f18 81fe  e836 388d c0b2 1f63 1124 
>

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Re: Gitter chatroom?

[John MacFarlane]

Personally I prefer the asynchronous nature of a mail
list to asynchronous chat, so I would not be
interested in monitoring such a channel myself.
And I think there's a downside to fragmenting pandoc
discussion rather than concentrating it in one place.

Brian Leung <bkleung89-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Would it be possible to have a Gitter chatroom (gitter.im) for Pandoc? 
> Anyone with a Github account can use it to sign into Gitter, and it also 
> works with IRC.
>
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Re: Gitter chatroom?

[Albert Krewinkel]

John MacFarlane writes:

> Personally I prefer the asynchronous nature of a mail
> list to asynchronous chat, so I would not be
> interested in monitoring such a channel myself.
> And I think there's a downside to fragmenting pandoc
> discussion rather than concentrating it in one place.
>
> Brian Leung <bkleung89-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
>> Would it be possible to have a Gitter chatroom (gitter.im) for Pandoc?
>> Anyone with a Github account can use it to sign into Gitter, and it also
>> works with IRC.

I'd be interested in joining if the chat came into existence.
However, it the success or failure of such a chat would depend on
getting a critical number of people willing to hang around. While
the informal nature of a chat could make it easier for some
people to ask for help, not getting an answer in a timely fashion
would be frustrating.

Maybe a platform other than gitter would be better to test this.
Gitter chats are strongly linked to projects, while stackoverflow
chats appear to be more detached and less official. Additional
fragmentation should be minimal, too.