Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Rolling out EPICS Chat

[Ralph Lange via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

The matrix.to - links are public invitation links that work independent of your chat client, OS, ...

That and only that.

Once you have a client installed/configured and are connected to your homeserver, connections, spaces and rooms show up very quickly.

The first set of invitations that George sent out for the Cyber-...room are not working anymore. Once we set up the room in the right place, he sent out another set of invitations. Those work.

If a room is busy and people are sending hundreds of messages, everyone in the room will see these messages. That's the idea of chatting.

Cheers,
~Ralph

On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 at 14:36, Kasemir, Kay via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

Hi:

 

For what it’s worth, it’s a little disappointing and/or confusing.

 

When I enter the chat system via

https://matrix.to/#/#epics:epics-controls.org

I need to push a “Continue” button and then wait 10 seconds or longer for the “EPICS Community” to open.

I see an “E” with a red “!”, another peach-colored “E” with a red “106”, a baby blue “E” with a gray “121”.

Not really looking forward to parsing 200+ messages, I click on one of  the “E”s and get a list which includes “EPICS Cyber Sec… Design Questions” again with a red “!”. Click on that, “Accept” the invitation, and “Joining…” ends in “Failed to join”.

 

Would be a fun game of whack-a-mole if I had nothing else to do…

 

-Kay

 

 

From: Core-talk <core-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Ralph Lange via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 4:44 AM
To: EPICS Core Talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Rolling out EPICS Chat

Just a friendly reminder. . . To avoid user frustration, I think we really should have you, the specialists, on the chat before we open it up. Remember to "edit" the homeserver to point the web-based Element to epics-controls. org to

Just a friendly reminder...

To avoid user frustration, I think we really should have you, the specialists, on the chat before we open it up.

 

Remember to "edit" the homeserver to point the web-based Element to epics-controls.org to create an account on the EPICS homeserver.

 

Cheers,
~Ralph

 

 

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 at 10:26, Ralph Lange <ralph.lange at gmx.de> wrote:

Dear Core-Talkers,

 

Answering to requests for a way of communication that is more intimate than Tech-Talk (~1000 subscribers), we are introducing EPICS Chat, based on the Matrix protocol and network.

 

Here's the a short and concise documentation, intentionally not in the navi yet. Please read it carefully.
    https://epics-controls.org/epics-chat/

 

We're doing this as a phased roll-out. We had beta testers and volunteers first, now we're going to the core-talk members, and in April (Collaboration Meeting) we'll go fully public.

 

If you have a Matrix account on another homeserver, you can just join the EPICS space through the link on top of the EPICS web page.

If you want to create a Matrix account on the EPICS Chat homeserver, follow the instructions further down that page. Make sure that you re-direct your client to the epics-controls.org homeserver when creating the account.

 

I'm happy to help create the infrastructure (spaces, rooms) that is needed and to boost you to moderators or maintainers for your areas - EPICS Chat should be a service that is largely self-maintained and adapts to the community needs.

 

Thanks for your help and - see you on EPICS Chat!
~Ralph