Slack-like chat (also for GSOC)

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

I think setting up something like this would be a great idea. Like mojca, irc is no use to me for a number of reasons. I need to be able to be offline for periods, and switch between multiple different devices without missing messages, and with irc this is tough.. We use a self hosted mattermost service at work, which is basically just like slack... Its macOS and iOS clients are pretty good.

Chris



> On 9 May 2019, at 10:48 pm, Ao Liu <ao at aoliu.tech> wrote:
> 
> I strongly recommend Slack. It has been used in many national labs nowadays. Smartphone apps are also done nicely. 
> 
>> On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 4:43 PM Ruben Di Battista <rubendibattista at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I suggest to get a look to Matrix.org. They perfectly integrate with IRC, but they have bridges for everything. No need to self host (but you can and it's federated with the rest of the fédération)
>> 
>> It's a pretty cool technology IMHO. 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Thu, 9 May 2019, 23:38 Mojca Miklavec, <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I know that our official channels only include mailing lists, IRC and
>>> PR/ticket discussion so far, but I'm curious about your stand with
>>> respect to setting up a service like Zulip Chat / Rocket Chat / ...
>>> for aiding the GSOC communication when higher frequency of potentially
>>> simple questions would be needed. I know IRC could fulfill such a
>>> task, but it doesn't work too well for me. (I'm offline when at work,
>>> cannot really use phone efficiently for communication etc..)
>>> 
>>> Would it be realistic to install such a service on breaburn if needed?
>>> (Or is it too complex / too much work?)
>>> 
>>> I strongly suspect that one of those services also integrates pretty
>>> well with IRC. I've been using Slack, Zulip, Discord, Gitter at
>>> various occasions and I like the way they work.
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>>     Mojca
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