I've been using Slack for a couple years now for various projects, and I have to say, I love it! I know there will be a lot of old fogies who don't want to switch, but the accessibility and integrations are hard to beat!
For those complaining about it not being open source, there is an OSS clone/incarnation called MatterMost. That's always an option (and is something I'm looking at using at work), and I believe it can import Slack data exports (yes, you can always export your Slack data, even from the free instance). The issue, as always, is infrastructure. Reliability has been a problem recently, from what I've read, for the e.org systems. Slack runs in the AWS cloud, so that's never* a concern. Slack has a lot to offer, so hopefully people will give it a chance! Michael * For small non-zero values of "never." PS: [email protected] would appreciate an invitation at your convenience. I'm already on 5 Slack instances, so what's one more? :-) On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm doing an experiment with slack.com as IRC alternative. I'm no > expert in slack, first time I ever used, if you have more experience > let me know so I can add you as admin. > > The biggest annoyance at the time is sign up that requires an > invitation, I sent to some in this list, others can do based on > domains such as @samsung.com, @osg.samsung.com and so on... but they > do not allow comcast.net or gmail.com to auto-join. > > So if you want to join, let me know your email and I'll send the invitation. > > I've added some interesting plugins as people were demanding > voice/video calls at some point, these 2 can be better than simply > keeping a google Hangouts open all the time (and night!): > > /appear edevelop > > creates an appear.in video/voice chat https://appear.in/edevelop > just click to join, no app or registration is required. Seems to have > a 8 person limit. > > /hangout > > creates a hangout invitation link and post to channel, people can > click to join. Marcel told it also has a limit on video users. > > Since we often need to remember people of stuff: > > /remind [@person or #channel] [what] [when] > /remind me to drink water at 3pm every day > /remind me on June 1st to wish Linda happy birthday > /remind #team-alpha to update the project status every Monday at 9am > /remind @jessica about the interview in 3 hours > /remind @peter tomorrow "Please review the office seating plan" > > or: > > /todo @okra fix ephoto! > /mytodo help vtorri with ecore-con on win32 > > > It can integrate with jenkins as well, but I don't have the permission > to do that in our jenkins. > > So far, the web-browser version is as usable as the app, at least on > Linux/Chrome, so no install is required. It looks quite nice and also > provides phone applications (iOS version is very good). I also liked > that it have built-in "pastebin", just click the "[+]" at the left > side of the message box to send one. > > > -- > Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > -------------------------------------- > Mobile: +55 (16) 99354-9890 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel -- Michael Jennings (KainX) https://medium.com/@mej0/ <[email protected]> Linux/HPC Systems Engineer, LANL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was." -- Walt West ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
