Shashank Sabniveesu

Setting up Matrix Server for Community Learning Project (Part 1)

What?

Think of Slack. Think of Discord. This is a real-time communication forum enabling our continued learning. The difference: we are in control of our data

Why?

Virtual or otherwise, interested learners got together for 6 weeks to learn and practice Python programming language for more than 2 years. At the end of every offering, our participants asked: What’s next?, Is there a Level-2?

We now launch this platform so our alumni and alumni-to-be can get together to enhance their learning. Learning is an ongoing journey and our goal is to extend the path we laid.

Where?

Our server is hosted at https://chat.fossterer.com To join the community and login later, proceed to How do I guides

Who?

We are the staff of Carnegie library of Pittsburgh and volunteering facilitators associated with program On Ramp to Python: A Six Week Introduction to Coding

How do I..?

Register

• If you are a facilitator or are accepted for the program, watch out for a second email that comes with an invite link and instructions
• If you are an alumnus, we are working on the best way to reach you soon
• Python or otherwise, if you are eager to learn or advise others in community about programming, just ask nicely to join
  • Open an Issue (Preferred) or Tweet to me

Login

We can guide you using this web app:

• Click on change at the top left inside Login box

• Modify ‘Homeserver URL’ contents to https://chat.fossterer.com and click ‘Next’

• You can choose to ‘Skip’ the key setup safely for the purposes of this program

You have more choices such as this and sophisticated setups such as this

Privacy Policy

1. We don’t associate your email address with your account on this server. Yayy! Matrix
   1. Unless you wish to use the Forgot Password feature
      1. We do not use it for any other purposes
2. We won’t have anything to do with your data
   1. In fact, you may participate in our community by hosting your data on your own server
      1. Yes, we welcome you that way too!
3. Anything else you are concerned about? Please ask. We care about privacy and responsibility too