New GStreamer Matrix chat space

[Edward Hervey]

Hello everyone,
As part of the ongoing effort to provide better tooling and services
for the GStreamer community at wide, there is now a Matrix instance for
GStreamer available at https://matrix.to/#/#community:gstreamer.org .
You can join using a matrix client and a matrix account (the GStreamer
instance does not provide account creation).
The decision comes after discussions that took place during the
gstreamer conference/hackfest and discussions here :
https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/a-replacement-for-irc/151 . But the
summary is that Matrix provides a modern chat system with features
people expect in this day and age, while not being a closed silo.
There are already some rooms up:
 * General Discussion The main discussion channel
 * GStreamer newcomers for those new to GStreamer
 * GStreamer Releases for preparing releases
 * Rust 🦀 GStreamer for the crustaceous multimedians
 * Python 🐍 GStreamer for the pythonistas
 * Sysadmin and service support for discussions and questions on the
   services behind gstreamer.org (matrix, discourse, mail, ...)
 * And more rooms will be made available on a as-needed basis
Note that a client with support for spaces and threads is recommended
(but not mandatory).
In terms of the OFTC IRC channel, it will remain bridged to matrix (2/3
users in #gstreamer on IRC are already accessing it via Matrix), but we
recommend switching over to using the above matrix rooms since:
 * They provide the full matrix experience (history, threads, search,
   emojis, calls,...)
 * They offer more rooms than the (single) IRC room
 * Using the IRC bridge requires you to handle IRC commands if you wish
   to join/speak there (NickServ)
 * The IRC bridge isn't maintained by the GStreamer community and we
   cannot guarantee it will always be around/up.
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