Gnuastro Matrix chat rooms

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Dear all,

I am happy to share with you the following two Matrix-protocol chat 
rooms have been setup for Gnuastro under the OpenAstronomy initiative:

General room:     #gnuastro:openastronomy.org
Development room: #gnuastro-dev:openastronomy.org

You can use any Matrix-protocol client to access these chat rooms if you 
have fast questions/doubts, or would like to help answer the questions 
of others, or simply follow the development process that is on going 
(some pretty exciting things are coming soon: a Python interface, and 
low surface brightness optimized, distortion correction as a SWarp 
alternative!).

If you haven't used Matrix-protocol chat rooms before and don't know how 
to access those rooms above, you can use https://element.io which has 
both stand-alone desktop applications in common operating systems, and a 
web-browser based interface. For example, here is the URLs which you can 
anonymously view the chat rooms above:

https://openastronomy.element.io/#/room/#gnuastro:openastronomy.org
https://openastronomy.element.io/#/room/#gnuastro-dev:openastronomy.org

The interface of Element is very much like Slack, but far more superior 
(it is free software, based on a free protocol, people can join from 
many different programs, not just Element, with a single password for 
all their organizations/rooms, and etc).

If you would like to post messages and join the discussion, you need to 
make a Matrix-potocol ID (which you can use on any program: for example 
from version 102, Thunderbird now also integrates Matrix chat!). To 
create an ID, in the element pages above, just click on the green "Sign 
Up" button at the bottom of the page.

Besides email, feel free to join us in the discussions in the chat rooms 
above and share your thoughts, questions, and ideas for further 
improvement of Gnuastro :-).

Cheers,
Mohammad

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Staff researcher
Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA)
https://www.cefca.es