The public matrix rooms at FOSDEM were bridged to irc. This was not by accident. We tried to give visitors the freedom to use their preferred tools to join FOS

The public matrix rooms at FOSDEM were bridged to irc. This was not by accident. We tried to give visitors the freedom to use their preferred tools to join FOSDEM. Whether you were using matrix with the latest Chromium or irssi in a tmux session on OpenBSD, you were able to speak to people at the conference. Same for the streaming. Inside the matrix channel would have worked, but mpv on some framebuffer without X or wayland too...