Just discovered this: 
https://kiwiirc.com/client/chat.freenode.org/?nick=visitor|?#xwiki
It's a lot more modern look and feel than the webchat we have embedded on 
xwiki.org
After that it's just a question of where you want to put the link or iframe.

Caleb


On 16/10/15 09:48, [email protected] wrote:
Hi devs,

I feel it would help the XWiki project if we had some chat infrastructure more 
user-friendly than IRC channel (which is currently mostly used by the xwiki 
developers and a few power contributors/users). I think it would help spread 
xwiki more and be more friendly to our community (btw the same should be done 
for the mailing list by moving the user mailing list to a forum but that’s for 
another thread).

I wonder if you guys would be interested to moving to another tool such as 
Gitter.im: https://gitter.im/

It seems to be nice for open communities. Nicer than Slack anyway (I’ve tried 
Slack for another community I’m in and we quickly reached the 10K messages and 
it’s not nice to have this red reminder message and you loose some messages 
that you can’t see - See 
http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html).

Of course another strategy would be to ask a company to host a tool for us, 
such as http://www.mattermost.org/ but setting it up and maintaining it has a 
price and we’d need to convince some company like XWiki SAS to do that and I’m 
not sure it’s worth it.

Let me know what you think and if you’re ok to try it, I’ll set up an org on 
gitter so that we can make an experiment and try it out.

Thanks
-Vincent



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