Removing the #software category entirely doesn’t sound good to me. Where would the Project Treble discussion go, for example?
Topics in #hardware:repairs sometimes overlap, so maybe we can rather drop one or the other category in the hardware section. Maybe #hardware could be dropped, following the argument that #fairphone-road-map would work for these topics to, given that Fairphone works on hardware to improve the electronics sector.
#software:dev and #hardware:diy could maybe be one joint category.
Just some thoughts randomly written down. 