I think each of those platforms caters to different sets of users. It all depends on who you want to talk with.
I find that an IRC chat is nice to have for casual conversation. For instance, if we had a website we could embed the chatroom with the following iframe: <iframe src="http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=%23python-k12&uio=MTY9dHJ1ZSYyPXRydWUmOT10cnVlJjExPTI4Nwee"; width="647" height="400"></iframe> Or one could reach it directly thru a link <http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=%23python-k12&uio=MTY9dHJ1ZSYyPXRydWUmOT10cnVlJjExPTI4Nwee>. More fancy clients are available as well as bridges. I'm not in capacity to provide hosting for a hosted solution, but what we have now is quite usable. That said, I will take a look at Zulip, sounds pretty cool. Regards, Sebastian On 13/05/18 13:21, Wes Turner wrote: > #pythonK12 (without the dash) could be a hashtag, as well. > > There was a discussion on the python-dev list awhile ago about Slack, > Gitter, Mattermost, and Zulip; which are all HTTP-based chat solutions > with mobile clients and serverside logging. > > Python-dev chose to create a Zulip instance. Zulip was initially > created at Dropbox. [1] > > Slack, Gitter, Matter most, and Zulip all have free and paid plans for > hosted webchat with bots. Mattermost and Zulip are open source and can > be run on-premise. > > I think all of them support @mentions now; which, for IRC, requires > some IRC-fu and constantly idling with an IRC c lient app that may or > may not expose the IP address. > > With free hosted plans, serverside logging is limited but better than > directing new joins to the an IRC chan to the log available over HTTP > as HTML or /dcc. > > It may be even less likely that edu-sig users will IRC than that > python-dev users will IRC; YMMV. > > [1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-April/152826.html > > [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/dev-python/JyyOu5ypBqA > <https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#%21topic/dev-python/JyyOu5ypBqA> > > [1] > https://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.python.python-dev#query:list%3Aorg.python.python-dev%20zulip+page:1+mid:p2f37mkblhdoyxys+state:results > > > [Python-Dev] Introducing python.zulipchat.com > <http://python.zulipchat.com> > > > > As an experiment we have gotten an instance of Zulip running for > Python's development at https://python.zulipchat.com (IOW this is for > discussing the development *of* Python only*)*. As Guido has put it > you can view Zulip like "hyper-interactive email" as we have streams > corresponding to equivalent mailing lists and all messages fall under > a topic so conversations are on-topic. > > > > [...] > > > On Sunday, May 13, 2018, Kevin Cole <kevin.c...@novawebdevelopment.org > <mailto:kevin.c...@novawebdevelopment.org>> wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 10:40 PM, Sebastian Silva > <sebast...@fuentelibre.org <mailto:sebast...@fuentelibre.org>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm in! Actually I've been at that IRC channel for the past > couple of days and haven't seen anyone come by. > > By "that IRC channel" are you referring to _*#python-k12*_? > > > I think that's what Jeff meant by "what IRC channel" -- i.e. the > name not the details of how it was implemented. > > > > -- > *Kevin Cole* > <http://novawebdevelopment.org> > NOVA Web Development Co-Op > http://novawebdevelopment.org/ > Arlington, VA >
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