Excerpts from Dimitris Chloupis's message of 2015-12-16 11:04:04 +0100: > So since Slack has been so successful for our community , far more that IRC > has been in terms of participation and useful discussions (at least the 2 > years I have been around) > > it made me wonder if I could find an open source alternative to Slack that > is at least as good as it if not better without a very different workflow > (so we have to learn everything from zero) all the big pros and something > that could easily interface with Pharo. > > Ladies and gentlemen meet Rocket Chat > > https://rocket.chat/ > > The good news about Rocket chat is that it seems to have all the pros of > Slack like close integration with tweeter, github etc etc . It has clients > for all OS and mobile devices.
what it doesn't have is support for irc clients: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/1259 for me, that's a deal breaker. because as nice as these services are, i don't have the patience to run a dozen clients for all different communication services. it is bad enough that these services are not federated and i have to connect to them to communicate, but at least support for common, already existing clients, should be there. it does seem to have an irc bridge at least. a bit ugly, but workable. but there is also mattermost: http://mattermost.org/ (and it has irc client support) seems at least as mature as rocket.chat. greetings, martin. -- eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life -- chief engineer eKita.co pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net societyserver.org secretary beijinglug.org mentor fossasia.org foresight developer foresightlinux.org realss.com unix sysadmin Martin Bähr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/
