[FOSDEM] [FOSDEM Feedback] matrix accounts on fosdem.org ... do they stay?

[Richard Hartmann]

I thought about this a lot. Initially I thought we should keep it, but:

Ongoing maintenance can be automated away. But what about abuse
reports, etc? From freenode, I know how much time that eats, and it
never ends. Do we have the people who want to commit to doing that
work?

A middle ground might be to keep it running for a week, then archive
it and re-use next year. Or just send everyone a message with "you
have one week to back up" and then delete it all.

The one consideration: Should we archive public conversations
alongside the public recordings? I am torn.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 9:22 PM Kristoff <kristoff at skypro.be> wrote:
>
> Hi Alasdair,
>
>
> On 7/02/2021 7:51 p.m., Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> >> I know some people who have now created a matrix-account on the
> >> fosdem.org matrix-server for this weekend.
> >> Will this matrix account stay active?
> >> Or where they only intended for this weekend?
> >
> > The simple answer is that we haven't decided yet.
> > If you have opinions on this or any other aspect of this
> > year's FOSDEM, please let feedback at fosdem.org know!
>
> I do not really have an opinion on this.
>
> I just asked this to know if I should advice them to get an account
> somewhere else, or not. :-)
>
>
> On one side, it is good publicity to have the 'fosdem.org' name become
> part of the matrix landscape.
> On the other hand, you can ask yourself if it the job of fosdem to
> continuously support a service (i.e. the matrix server) while there do
> are sufficient other services that already do this.
>
>
> I think the call is completely up to you! :-)
> I will adapt based on your decision.
>
>
> > Alasdair
> Kristoff
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