Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-07-28 Thread Oddvar Lovaas
Hi folks, Someone asked if there's a desktop Matrix client - there is! Infact there are many; inluding 3 Qt clients (Tensor, Quaternion and NaChat), an electron-wrapped version of Vector and even an experimental IRCd (PTO) that you can connect to from any IRC client! All of these can be

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-07-26 Thread Alessandro Longo
Il 20-07-2016 17:57 Christian ha scritto: Marco Martin writes: Hi all, Hi all, sorry, I'm a bit late to the party, but I just got pointed at this thread due to bringing it up on IRC, due to the recent blog post about the Telegram / IRC tunnel: Right now many groups are

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-07-26 Thread Oddvar Lovaas
Hi guys, just jumping in here after briefly talking to Alex L. in Matrix. As he might have mentioned, Matrix itself is "just" the open standard. There are many Matrix-enabled clients - we collect all of them (atleast the ones we know about!) here:

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-07-26 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
Hi, On 18 July 2016 at 16:58, Filipe Saraiva wrote: > If there is some interest in this test, please let me know and I can > foward the reply for them. at WikiToLearn we set up a test instance on one of our staging servers. You can login with phabricator details on

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-07-26 Thread Alessandro Longo
Il 20-07-2016 17:57 Christian ha scritto: Marco Martin writes: Hi all, Hi all, sorry, I'm a bit late to the party, but I just got pointed at this thread due to bringing it up on IRC, due to the recent blog post about the Telegram / IRC tunnel: Right now many groups are

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-07-20 Thread Christian Loosli
Am Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2016, 18:37:24 CEST schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer: > On 20.07.2016 17:57, Christian wrote: Hi Thomas, > > tl;dr recommendation: if some people really can't deal with IRC and need > > alternatives: go with mattermost, but provide an official instance. > > Have you managed to get

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-07-20 Thread Christian
Marco Martin writes: > Hi all, Hi all, sorry, I'm a bit late to the party, but I just got pointed at this thread due to bringing it up on IRC, due to the recent blog post about the Telegram / IRC tunnel: > Right now many groups are using Telegram as their primary communication

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-07-18 Thread Jens Reuterberg
Personally I am pro opensource options, but the most relevant one is that we pick one and stick with it as long as possible. That is key. On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 10:55:52 CEST Marco Martin wrote: > Hi all, > Right now many groups are using Telegram as their primary communication > medium due to

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-07-18 Thread Filipe Saraiva
Hi all, During this FISL I talked with rocket.chat [1] team and they were very receptive to help our sysadmin team if we want to test their chat solution in our infra. If there is some interest in this test, please let me know and I can foward the reply for them. Cheers; [1]

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-05-20 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
2016-05-20 12:22 GMT-03:00 Thomas Pfeiffer : > On Dienstag, 17. Mai 2016 12:33:25 CEST Nicolás Alvarez wrote: >> 2016-05-17 5:55 GMT-03:00 Marco Martin : >> > Hi all, >> > Right now many groups are using Telegram as their primary communication >> >

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-05-20 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Dienstag, 17. Mai 2016 12:33:25 CEST Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > 2016-05-17 5:55 GMT-03:00 Marco Martin : > > Hi all, > > Right now many groups are using Telegram as their primary communication > > medium due to some limitations in IRC (mainly due to the ease of pasting > >

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-05-18 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 18 May 2016 09:19:47 Filipe Saraiva wrote: > Em 18-05-2016 02:28, Luca Beltrame escreveu: > > Il giorno Tue, 17 May 2016 20:18:37 +0200 > > Thomas Pfeiffer ha > > > > scritto: > >> Good point! I think we should use it internally extensively before > >>

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-05-18 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 17 May 2016 20:18:37 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > In that regard, I'm for getting us an installation as soon as possible so we > could try out or well it works for us. > If it still proves to work well after the "oh, shiny new toy!" emotion > wears off, we could make it official. for

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-05-17 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il giorno Tue, 17 May 2016 20:18:37 +0200 Thomas Pfeiffer ha scritto: > Good point! I think we should use it internally extensively before > switching any public communication over to it. More food for thought: another alternative may be Matrix[1] a FOSS, federated

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-05-17 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
2016-05-17 5:55 GMT-03:00 Marco Martin : > Hi all, > Right now many groups are using Telegram as their primary communication medium > due to some limitations in IRC (mainly due to the ease of pasting images > inline the channel and the lack of fancy mobile clients for IRC),

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-05-17 Thread Ken Vermette
I'm interested too, if for no other reason than self-hosting an instance means we aren't tied to the fate of a 3rd-party. Several people who were not on board with issues on the Telegram openness would probably be willing to use this as well. One thing I'd like to mention is that we should firmly

[kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-05-17 Thread Marco Martin
Hi all, Right now many groups are using Telegram as their primary communication medium due to some limitations in IRC (mainly due to the ease of pasting images inline the channel and the lack of fancy mobile clients for IRC), there may be other valid reasons i'm not aware of today i randomly