Chat Rooms

Here are a list of Slack channels / Matrix Team Chat chat rooms that we use.

Most channels are invite only, so if you’re not a member, someone needs to add you.

See also: Communication conventions

Matrix Team Chat

When using Element, make sure you enable the Spaces ¹ feature.

• Adrestia Space - this has its own room listing which you can explore once you’ve been invited.

  • #team - The full Adrestia team.
  • #matrix-testing - A room for trying out features of Matrix chat rooms and client, etc.
  • #dev - Development discussions.
  • #bugs - Debugging and issue triage.

Slack

Here are a selection of possibly relevant channels on Slack.

Adrestia

• ⛪ 👍 #adrestia-dev - main channel for people across the company to ask questions of our team and discuss all things Adrestia.
• 🔒 ❌ #adrestia-secret-fort - decommissioned and replaced with Matrix.
• 🔒   #adrestia-polyglot - compilation of wallet code to javascript/webassembly.
• 🔒   #adrestia-daily - status updates.
•   👍 #adrestia-releases - for co-ordinating releases.
•   👍 #cardano-launcher-dev - development of cardano-launcher.
•   👍 #daedalus-adrestia-node - intersection of the three main components of Daedalus.
•   👍 #lightwallet - light wallet project.
• 🔒 ❌ #adrestia-leads - not used much.
• 🔒   #recruiting_adrestia - used with recruitment dept to discuss of roles, filter applications on workable, arrange interviews with candidates, etc.

Cardano

•   👍 #cardano-dev - main channel for Cardano development.
•   👍 #consensus - consensus layer development.
•   👍 #ledger - ledger layer development.
•   👍 #network - network layer development.
•   👍 #node - cardano-node development
•   👍 #node-api-and-cli - cardano-cli and cardano-api.
•   👍 #node-logging - benchmarking, logging and monitoring.
•   👍 #cardano-db-sync-dev - cardano-db-sync development
•   👍 #cardano-explorer-app-dev - cardano explorer frontend.
•   👍 #plutus - Plutus development.
•     #team-cardanodocs - documentation writing.

Daedalus

• ⛪ 👍 #daedalus - main channel to discuss all things Daedalus.

Channels for getting help

• ⛪ 👍 #crossteam-ci - get help with your failing builds, discuss CI issues.
• ⛪   #ops - devops team public channel.
• ⛪ 👍 #haskell - ask questions, discuss Haskell stuff.
• ⛪   #emacs-best-practices - Emacs users.
• ⛪ 👍 #nix-best-practices - get help with Nix.

Large channels

• ⛪ 👍 #engineering - large channel for all engineering staff.
• ⛪ 🔥 #public - general IOHK-relevant content.
• ⛪ 🔥 #public-random - share interesting links and stories.
• ⛪   #announcements - not particularly interesting, messages are usually cross-posted anyway.
• 🔒 🔥 #comms - comms team discussion.
• ⛪ 👍 #security-public - computer and network security.

Special topics

• ⛪ #aus - channel for (honourary) Australians and Kiwis.
• ⛪ #keyboards - input devices and related topic.
• ⛪ #fitness - health and well-being.

Admin-type things

• ⛪ #concur - get help with SAP.
• 🔒 #udemy - training platform.