With contributions in that room and various ‘Jitsi Meet’ events from Kochi.
These annual ‘DebConfs’ and several ‘MiniDebConfs’ in a year, are a unique selling point of Debian and springs from the spirit, philosophy of GNU/Linux. Opening these events around the world to Debian users and getting them involved is the idea behind them.
Debian also lives from the discussion of controversial topics. For this, I think, Jitsi Meet lends itself.
SimpleX has been around since 2020.
So…
The title of this post is wrong and it’s not new?
Guess so