Heya,
I understood that it was a bit difficult with IRC to orchestrate the
participants on the last Sprint. I am not so much worried about the old
timers (not sure they need a Sprint in the first place) but the
newcomers certainly benefit from something less clumsy and an
integration of sound and vision (https://xkcd.com/1782/). And if we
indeed plan to have some fancier presentation by some upstream devs
then, well, in my very humble opinion IRC is just a no-go.
There is https://discord.com/open-source out there which I started to
like. There are some BOINC and Gridcoin channels via which I got in
contact. Any better ideas on your sides?
I'm not sure how feasible my suggestion is, but there's signal[1] as well which can help. Also, for screen-share and presentation, jitsi can be a good option as well.
That said, discord is a pretty good alternative - the above options is just to add suggestions to the list.
Thanks and regards
Nilesh