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

[Olivier Anh]

Seeing some divergence in the email, may be it's better to have a larger scope of the "problem"

As communication tools, we are using :
- IRC : instant communication, requiring a permanent connexion
- forum : deferred communication. Good for deeper message et refllexion
- Stackoverflow : very broad communication to anyone. good to get views on the net
- github : very targeted to developpers only.
- mailing lists : email, email, email

Suggestion of a to to replace one or more existing tools.
- do we need a tools for quick and short communication
- long text of reflection
- open to anyone, or restricted (what is the public)
- should the topics be very targeted on coding, community, users,
- should it be free (cost free)
- open source or closed source

Proposed alternative : Slack
- could replace IRC in the concept (instant communication)
- could replace mailing lists (deferred communication)
- portable (as in mobile device - phone / tablet)
- sedentary (Desktop)
- costly (I don't consider the 10.000 message limit as a valid option)
- closed source
- known API
Open source alternative : mattermost, rocket.chat (and certainly others)

Proposed alternative : Telegram
- could replace IRC in the concept (instant communication)
- could replace mailing lists (deferred communication)
- portable (as in mobile device - phone / tablet)
- sedentary (Desktop)
- free (no cost)
- partially open source
- known API
- linked to a mobile phone number

What would be the advantage to use such a new tool and to replace which one(s) ?
I see :
- available on mobile
- can scroll back in time (deferred communication)
- more accessible to non tech users than IRC (?)

Do I miss something ?


> Le 25 juil. 2016 à 20:38, Tahir Malik <tahir.malik at contezza.nl> a écrit :
> 
> We at Contezza are using Slack as our main communication tool since a year and it's good
>  
> First it could only be used internally, but since a few months a community can start using as well.
>  
> So it's like Skype but it's based on channels, so in our case we'd create a channel for each committee and a general. And its quite good searchable.
>  
> And no I don't have any investments in them 😜
>  
> met vriendelijke groet,
> 
> Tahir Malik
> Sent from Outlook Mail for Windows 10 phone
>  
> 
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