Hi, I realized there are two IRC channels — #pypa and #pypa-dev. They used to be on Freenode up until it's been taken over, and are now on Libera.chat. Looks like they were bridged into Matrix before that migration but are not accessible from there anymore. Matrix is a decentralized communication network and a lot of projects moved there, replacing IRC. It's gained a lot of popularity among FOSS projects already. Also, Gitter that has chat rooms of many GitHub projects historically, was converted into a full-fledged Matrix server. This means that there are a lot of users that already have a Matrix account since Matrix allows communicating across servers and, for example, matrix.org users can join rooms hosted on gitter.im and vice versa. The individual users can have end-to-end encrypted chats across homeservers too. With this, I'd like to propose a few things: * Re-bridge the IRC rooms into Matrix (specifically, the matrix.org homeserver), re-enabling a substantial number of users to access them and interact with folks connected over IRC. * Expose aliases for existing gitter.im-hosted rooms of the PyPA projects on matrix.org. * Create a PyPA Matrix Space on matrix.org. This is basically a way to group rooms and people of a community. What will this achieve? Inclusion of people who are less familiar with IRC, a better interconnection of multiple chatting spaces, mostly. Thoughts? -- Warm regards, Sviatoslav Sydorenko --- https://useplaintext.email/ () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments ---