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[djfnd]

As decided in the latest neume open office (03/23) we are going to transition our community communication over to github discussions in the coming weeks.

The rationale for this is as follows:

• HIFI Lab's Discord has served a purpose as a staging point for incubation, but as neume grows into an ecosystem-wide project, we need a comms platform that is more accessible and open
• As we increasingly work with other open-source projects, we need easily linkable conversations across comms platforms
• As the complexity of build path increases, with multiple working groups focussing on different areas, we need an environment that supports threading, which discord sucks for
• As the project develops and the value of record of communication increases, we need to have permanence
• Have our conversation next to our code is going to be a massive benefit

And so, I am going to be building out this section of the github to be a nice new home for our conversation. Please, if you have any ideas or thoughts, let me know.

In terms of things that we lose with this transition, I see two key elements, voice call functionality and direct messaging. For the former, I have already set up a google meet within the open office meeting invite for us to use. For the latter, I suggest that we continue to use discord direct messaging and/or telegram where convenient.

Cheers,

Dan