libregaming-website/chat-with-us.md

Chat with us!

Currently, our main channels of communication are instant messaging rooms hosted on the Matrix network. They are also accessible via Jabber/XMPP and IRC protocols, so that contributors can use their favorite client to join us.

The topic for our main channel is:

LibreGaming community - general/organizational discussions. Join #libregaming-ROOM for specific working groups: website, sysadmin. Community pad: https://md.roflcopter.fr/libregaming?both

Next Meeting

Anyone interested in playing and developing libre games in invited to join us on Mumble voice chat on 2022-01-30 at 20:00 UTC by connecting to hribhrib.at. Some things we might be discussing:

• General review of last 6 months, what is/isn't working for libregaming.org?
• Chat channels: privacy, moderation, working groups, on-topic
• Service (de)centralisation
• provide a place and encouragement for devs to interact (freegamedev.net?)
• general goals and level of ambition, as well as how "growth" oriented/cohesive
• collaborative focus day with a shared todo list

Official chatrooms

• matchmaking: matchmaking service/bot to find people to play with matrix xmpp irc archive
• organization: meta channel for discussing the LibreGaming.org project itself matrix xmpp irc archive
• offtopic: for discussions with libregaming folks about everything except libregaming matrix xmpp irc archive

Working groups

• website: website Working Group matrix xmpp archive
• sysadmin: sysadmin Working Group, to keep our services running matrix xmpp archive
• chamber: for bursts of high-volume organisational activity, when a topic gets too long for the main channel matrix xmpp archive

To join one such room called ROOM, configure your client according to the instructions below.

Communities

For on-topic chat about Libre Gaming, these are the active communities we are aware of.

• FreeGameDev.net: bring players and developers together like the old #freegamer on Freenode matrix xmpp irc archive
• Libre Game Night: play and discuss libre games such as Hedgewars, Mindustry, Freedoom matrix xmpp irc
• onFOSS-LAN: online LAN-Party event day matrix xmpp
• opensource_gaming: twitch channel to bring attention to a lot of great Open Source projects matrix xmpp
• SMAC: чат без смысла и цели matrix xmpp
• Free, Libre, and Open Source Gaming matrix xmpp

Matrix

Room name: #libregaming-ROOM:freedombox.emorrp1.name

• Create an account, or use any other Matrix server
• Choose a client
• Libre Gaming space
• Subspaces: Communities, Games, Engines, Tools, Historical

Jabber/XMPP

Room name: #libregaming-ROOM#freedombox.emorrp1.name@matrix.org

• Create an account, or use any other Jabber/XMPP server
• Choose a client
• Bridged with matrix-bifrost (Usage details)

IRC

Room name: #libregaming-ROOM on irc.libera.chat

• Create an account, or connect as a guest user
• Choose a client
• Various features are not supported by the IRC protocol: for a better user experience, consider using a Matrix or Jabber/XMPP client instead
• Bridged with matrix-appservice-irc (Usage details)
  Settings

  Room -> Settings -> Advanced -> Open Devtools -> Send Custom Event -> Event -> State Key: `org.matrix.appservice-irc.config` Content: `{ "lineLimit": 9, "allowUnconnectedMatrixUsers": true }`