I think both, rocket.chat and mattermost.org are interesting. Owning
vital infrastructure, like the one of communications, is key for proper
community empowerment, but the problem is that this is a small community
without many spare resources and I don't know if any has the
time/infrastructure to volunteer hosting them and making the test. What
is a fact is that Slack has changed the way community interacts, mostly
for good so exploring and owning alternatives is a valuable pursuit.
Cheers,
Offray
On 16/12/15 07:05, Martin Bähr wrote:
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.
