On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 6:03 PM Ryan Grant via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 2:47 AM Buck O Perley via bitcoin-dev > First just wanted to thank you > for taking the initiative to > > put this together. I think that as the community and > > ecosystem continue to grow, it's going to be an important > > part of the process to have groups like this develop. Hopefully > > they allow us to resist the "Tyranny of Structurelessness" without > > resorting to formalized governance processes and systems. > > Huh, lots of reading material behind that phrase. I'd heard it > before, but hadn't looked it up. > > > > Defining a communication channel is still an open question: IRC, Slack, > > Discord, Discourse, ... > > > > I would vote against Slack. IRC is probably the best but maybe too > > high a barrier to entry? Publishing logs at least would counter > > concerns of it being exclusive. Maybe discord as an alternative. > > I found Discord immediately wanted a phone number from me. I think > IRC remains the lowest bar for participants to contribute. > > Agreed, anything that requires a phone number makes it difficult to be pseudonymous. I recommend Matrix, since it doesn't require any privacy invasive information and has e2ee by default for 1-1 conversations. The Matrix room could optionally bridge to IRC if there is a significant demand for that.