Fwd: [info] Octave Discord channel

[Nicholas Jankowski]

How active is the Octave IRC these days? 

I was in a seminar for an open source finite element tool, Elmer,  that addressed user issues and got into some discussion about how to enhance their contributor community.  I received the follow up copied below (trimmed to protect the innocent), from the person maintaining a Discord server for Elmer, Modelica, and others. I wasn't aware that there's a way to 'bridge' discord and IRC. Realizing we've decided to try moving a lot of communication to Discourse, is something like this worth pursuing? 

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Hi Nicholas,

 

It was a pleasure to have you at the Elmer seminar the other day.

I am the admin of unofficial Discord server for Elmer and there we have many channels for other FLOSS CAD/CAE/CAM out there.

I also manage another server for Modelica, which is more targeted towards scientific calculations and simulations.

On that server there are channels for Octave and MATLAB, though they are yet to be properly populated.

It would be a pleasure to have you and other Octave folks over there. We can also bridge the channel to your official IRC channels if you will.