Create a discussion place

[Lysoun]

Since we would like to welcome external contributors, there is a need to communicate with them, may it be Slack, Discord or something else.
@driccio @nroulon any suggestions?

[Lysoun]

I have mainly knowledge about Slack and Discord so they are the two options I am having in consideration:

Slack

Advantages

• Used a lot in the professional world
• Discussion threads

Drawbacks

• Need to accept anyone who wants to join the server
• No roles management, several slacks would be needed if there is a need for distinguishing maintainers, contributors and users for example
• Poor audio support

Discord

Advantages

• Highlight for Open source projects, with a way to search the open source projects on Discord itself (see https://discord.com/open-source)
• Easy to join the server: an invitation can be created and used by anyone as long as they have the link (which we would put in the README) & no need for an account
• Text & Audio channels, could be used for vocal meetings
• Roles management (may be useful to have a section for the maintainers, another for the contributors and another for the
  users)

Drawbacks

• No discussion threads

[Lysoun]

Other option: use github discussions, which has the advantage of being included in github

[xhanin]

There is also https://gitter.im/ which is used by some popular open source projects