Everything Open uses the Matrix protocol to manage chat communitcations. Matrix is federated and the EO conf is hosted on the matrix.org server.
The following rooms are avliable for EO2026:
These rooms are all collected together in the Everything Open Matrix "space", which could be considered to a Slack Workspace or Discord Server (mostly, it's just a hierarchical group of rooms and sub-Spaces)
To learn more about Matrix or get help with problems please attend the Matrix BOF at 12:35 on the 21st of Jan in Tute room A (2B04)
Matrix supplies a couple of features that make Matrix a lot easier to use.
You can reply to a message. This gives your response context and helps people understand it if the two messages are separated by many others.
Replies can be made in a thread which reduces the clutter and help the many people reading the various messages. Your Matrix client may or may not support threads, but you are encouraged to use them if possible.