Activity Report 2024 - Projects and Community

The projects and community team (PaC) manages the relationship between the Libera.Chat volunteer staff and projects and communities that use our network. It takes care of registrations and onboarding for projects and communities that would like to have an official representation on Libera.Chat. In addition to that, we keep up communications and good relationships both on the network and also through other channels, such as social media.

Registrations

At the end of fiscal year 2024 we had 1024 registered projects. In a first since the inception of Libera.Chat, our project registration backlog is now empty! This will allow us to respond to any future requests in a much more expedient fashion.

Improvements

We have revised our project registration and channel namespace policies to help clarify what we look for in a registered project, and to assist people with setting up and maintaining channels without requiring formal registration. Additionally, we have created a blog post regarding LLM etiquette on our network, to help provide guidance to our communities that they can take and further customise according to their needs.

Social Media

During 2024 we decided to stop posting content to Facebook and the social media site formerly known as Twitter. Our focus is now on our Fosstodon fediverse account and our account on Bluesky. We have been posting community-building content to these accounts, such as our April Fools Day prank.

Team Internals

The PaC team consisted of 17 members at the end of fiscal year 2024. We did not hold any formal PaC meetings during 2024, however there was much activity on our internal IRC channel.

Looking Forwards

As we move into 2025, we expect to see a slowdown in new project registrations due to many communities already established on Libera.Chat already having registrations as well as our revised channel namespace guidelines that reduce the requirement for a registration, making it much more of an opt-in decision on the part of communities.

We hope to maintain our empty backlog by promptly addressing any new registrations or other inquiries as they come in.

Reception around our improvements has been very positive, and we aim to continue improving things for the communities that choose us as their home.

We also intend to improve our social media reach and engagement. Many of the connections we established on Twitter did not carry over, and we will be putting effort in to reconnecting with our projects and communities on the federated social protocols.