While investigating some technical matter, I discovered that many projects and developers use gitter. so I created one thinking that it might be useful to us as well sometime - gitter-chat-room here. I've placed a link in the mailing list web UI.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gitter Notifications<sup...@gitter.im> Date: 2017-03-23 17:18 GMT-07:00 Subject: Your new chat room on Gitter
You've just created the public room sanskritcode/Lobby on Gitter.
You can forward this email to people you want to join.