Hello everyone. As you may have noticed freenode has undergone a hostile takeover (see https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/ng65se/freenode_is_no_longer_run_by_community_staff/ and https://twitter.com/freenodestaff for context). Ontop of this the apache kafka freenode IRC chatroom #apache-kafka hasn't really been maintained (i.e. the topic has invalid links). Due to these factors I would propose a suggestion for an alternative chat/chatroom style application which should hopefully foster a larger community within Kafka, I would suggest using Gitter/Matrix since this is one of the most popular used chatrooms for newer open source projects (there are also alternatives such as discord). My preference is for gitter since it has seamless integration with github which means it has the lowest friction for usage, also iirc admin/collaboration roles within github are also automatically translated to gitter. Furthermore Gitter also has other advantages, such as automatic archival of messages (you do not need to be online or use a cloud/server to maintain messages if you are offline).
Let me know what are your thoughts. -- Matthew de Detrich *Aiven Deutschland GmbH* Immanuelkirchstraße 26, 10405 Berlin Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 209739 B *m:* +491603708037 *w:* aiven.io *e:* matthew.dedetr...@aiven.io
