[OOTB-hive] New communication platform for our community?

[Jonathan Vargas]

Hello.

I do not participate so actively like you do, but I wanted to tell that at
our company we preferred Telegram instead of Slack, because: Many of us are
already using Telegram, it's an open source project and the people doesn't
need to have something else consuming more RAM in their desktops or
mobiles, and it worked fine for the final purpose: Make communication
easier.

Then, we created several groups for teams and developed a couple of bots,
one for converting hashed numbers like #1234 to a link to the corresponding
issue in our Redmine. Also, for requesting a ping pong play and for
notifying commits.

However it lacks videoconference and calls, so we fill that gap with Google
Hangouts. We tested Slack, but none liked it.

Now, personally I prefer IRC for communities, but I am old school, most of
others don't have any idea what it is. I think it is yet the larger
community chat I think first and use when looking for having a conversation
with an open source software team.

Jonathan Vargas R.
CEO & Business Development
Alkaid - Software Company
Phone: (+506) 4001 6259 Ext. 11

On Jul 26, 2016 05:41, <briank at glmotorsports.net> wrote:

I find the mailing list basically functional, but since I don't normally
check e-mail all that often I fall behind.  It's becoming less and less of
a useful channel these days, especially amongst the up and coming
generation.  Our young interns coming in just aren't used to using e-mail
at all (slack is all they know).  I'm making a special point to open an
e-mail client to keep up to date on this discussion.  :-)

IRC is getting old and clunky.  It's still getting the job done so far, and
is in many ways the best channel we have, but I sure wouldn't mind
something newer and more reliable (my IRC sessions like to close
frequently, it's hard to keep them open).

We may not decide on any changes at this time, but I think it's wise to
start looking.

--Brian


--------- Original Message ---------

I guess you misread the info. The word New is meant to replace our current
communication platform and at this moment it's IRC (and partly mailinglist).
IRC is ancient and probably started up before I was even born :P.

So there is no harm in every now and than stand still if the used platform
is actual and maybe can be replaced by something even better.

Then again I'm opting for this cause in my opinion there is something newer
and better :).
And maybe after a year when another "thing" comes online and it's even
better than what we've been using then I'll opt for that.

I thought others were using it as well and if the others would back me up
it would have chance.
I don't want to start on a issues debate on IRC vs Slack or anything else,
in my opinion IRC lacks a lot of features other applications had 10 years
ago.
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