Stephen Hinton  

What are peoples' thoughts about hosting a server, likely , on for a local chapter of ()? How many cores/RAM/storage are needed? There are ~ 2000 users across all the chat platforms used by OSM-US (slack, telegram).
I reached out to ems.element.io about hosting costs and they suggested the $2/user level.
Just wanted to gather options to provide the OSM-US team since they expressed interest in options to connect their disparate chat platforms.

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-karlos- 𓄿  

@hinton What about this:
Any #openstreetmap username could be contacted by, and participate to the Fediverse by a OSM-Fediverse node? Like @<username>@osm.social

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@karlos that sounds like it could work. I need to research more on how all the fedi services work together. Are there bridges from slack and telegram into the fediverse?

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deejoe  

@hinton @karlos

matterbridge seems to be the big thing for connecting disparate chat systems. Matrix would be a good addition to the suite of such systems as a FOSS option. Though it federates with instances of its own type, it is not itself a bridge to the others. Some who use non-FOSS chat tend to use it across multiple communities & of those some will resist adding or migrating.

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deejoe  

@hinton @karlos

any primary OSM-denominated service though should be FOSS in my opinion, with users on proprietary systems supported on a sort of best-effort level adjunct to the official FOSS service

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-karlos- 𓄿  

@deejoe @hinton I am no an expert. I think it would work, if osm.social would be an Matrix or Mastodon instance. (I dislike this non-merged feature mixes)

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