Hello,
Mirjam and the RIPE NCC have managed to get a Mattermost instance that
we can use for chat set up. She'll be sending you an invitation soon.
No "official" communication will happen there, but every form of
communication has it's own qualitative difference. E-mail is different
from voice communication, video conferencing is different from
face-to-face meeting, and so on. We should be able to more quickly work
out issues in real time if we have a real time forum. All proposed text
will eventually get sent to the mailing list though.
Cheers,
--
Shane