[Kernel-peer-lab] Reactivating the group

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 10:11 PM Matthias Brugger
<matthias.bgg at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> On 10/05/2022 22:41, Pau Espin Pedrol wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > A few of us attended the  last meeting we had in May 6th (the first in
> > ~2 years after the pandemic started), and we discussed about
> > reactivating the group a bit among other stuff.
> >
> > We also shared our concerns regarding the fact that the group has almost
> > no visibility, and it's difficult to find it even if knowing about its
> > existence, be it for contacting members or the community, or joining
> > physical meetings.
> >
> > This email aims at collecting ideas and specific actions to do which we
> > agreed on in order to improve the above concerns:
> >
> > * The bcnfs.org page is missing a link to its mailman. This makes it
> > incredibly difficult to find the bcnfs.org mailing lists (ours included)
> > even if knowing about its existence (I really had some trouble myself).
> >
> > * Have some well-known web page which is easy to share and find through
> > search engines, which has a small description of the group and how to
> > participate. We could ask bcnfs.org if they could provide a subdomain or
> > subpath + a minimal hosting (1 static html web page is enough imho).
> > IIRC Matthias already had such a web page somewhere, but I was unable to
> > find it. I can host it myself if needed, but I think having it in some
> > well known place like bcnfs.org should ease this.
> >
>
> I've also de domain kernel.barcelona which we could use for that. If you tell me
> to where you want me to redirect it, I can do that. Maybe we can even use the
> hosting that's included in the domain. As you like, going with bcnfs.org is also
> perfect.
>
> Maybe we can ask BCNFS people to publish the meetings in their meetup account,
> which will give us more visibility.
>
> > * Have some well-known chatting room where members can hang around and
> > interact. Try to have several technologies interconnected through bridges.
> >
> > ** IRC:  libera.chat room #bcn-kernel-peer-lab (I'm already there most
> > of the day)
> >
> > ** Telegram group (already created, waiting for captcha bot to publish)
> >
> > ** Matrix room? which server?
> >
>
> Not sure it makes sense to have the three of them. Matrix could use the
> libera.chat gateway, like #bcn-kernel-peer-lab:libera.chat which was enough with
> my element client.
>
> > * Try to schedule physical meetings around once per month. If we reach
> > to a stage with more people we can think about increasing frequency of
> > physical meetings (maybe at different locations).
> >
> >
> > List of specific TODO actions:
> >
> > * Ask Matthias to provide the document he used to book rooms at
> > Lleialtat Santsenca (maybe have the process briefly documented at the
> > web page?).
>
> I'll send that to you in private right now.
>
> Regards,
> Matthias
>
> >
> > * Contact bcnfs.org to tell them to add a link to their mailman from
> > their front web page.
> >
> > * Contact bcnfs.org to ask them if they can provide us with some minimal
> > subdomain/hosting (kernelpeerlab.bcnfs.org?)
> >
> > * Register #bcn-kernel-peer-lab room in libera.chat to have moderator rights
> >
> > * Add captcha bot to telegram group
> >
> > * Investigate need for Matrix chatroom

I just saw you were talking matrix, at the moment I'm already
connected to the room through matrix as libera.chat is bridged
transparently.

It should work just fine.

Aleix