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</style></head><body><p>Hello everyone,</p><p>As part of the ongoing effort to provide better tooling and services for the GStreamer community at wide, there is now a <a href="https://matrix.org/">Matrix</a> instance for GStreamer available at https://matrix.to/#/#community:gstreamer.org . You can join using a <a href="https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/">matrix client</a> and a matrix account (the GStreamer instance does not provide account creation).</p><p>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.</p><p>There are already some rooms up:</p><ul>
<li><a href="https://matrix.to/#/#gstreamer:gstreamer.org">General Discussion</a> The main discussion channel</li>
<li><a href="https://matrix.to/#/#newcomers:gstreamer.org">GStreamer newcomers</a> for those new to GStreamer</li>
<li><a href="https://matrix.to/#/#releases:gstreamer.org">GStreamer Releases</a> for preparing releases</li>
<li><a href="https://matrix.to/#/#rust:gstreamer.org">Rust 🦀 GStreamer</a> for the crustaceous multimedians</li>
<li><a href="https://matrix.to/#/#python:gstreamer.org">Python 🐍 GStreamer</a> for the pythonistas</li>
<li><a href="https://matrix.to/#/#sysadmin:gstreamer.org">Sysadmin and service support</a> for discussions and questions on the services behind gstreamer.org (matrix, discourse, mail, ...)</li>
<li>And more rooms will be made available on a as-needed basis</li>
</ul>
<p>Note that a client with support for spaces and threads is recommended (but not mandatory).</p><p>In terms of the OFTC IRC channel, it will remain bridged to matrix (2/3 users in <code>#gstreamer</code> on IRC are already accessing it via Matrix), but we recommend switching over to using the above matrix rooms since:</p><ul>
<li>They provide the full matrix experience (history, threads, search, emojis, calls,...)</li>
<li>They offer more rooms than the (single) IRC room</li>
<li>Using the IRC bridge requires you to handle IRC commands if you wish to join/speak there (NickServ)</li>
<li>The IRC bridge isn't maintained by the GStreamer community and we cannot guarantee it will always be around/up.</li>
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