Javier, Thanks for the suggestion about a WhatsApp group - I agree that a user-friendly more real-time chat tool is a nice complement to mailing lists but by no means a replacement. I agree with all the feedback shared by Mark and Myrle and don't really think WhatsApp might be the most ideal tool even for a real-time chat namely for a lot of the reasons Myrle suggested - I also think that for it to both be an effective tool for users and developers looking to collaborate it needs to have some of the integrations with Github, code formatting, etc. that tools like Hipchat, Slack, Gitter already have.
As Myrle said, for the Apache Fineract community, HipChat exists and for Mifos communities, we have our Gitter chat (which we continue to evaluate versus options like Slack and Zulip) While this is only related to the Mifos community, one thing that we are exploring (and it's in the spirit of making a more user-friendly and engaging user experience) is looking at an option like Discourse to replace the Mifos Mailing lists and our Q&A tool. I believe it ticks off all the boxes listed by Mark but also is more in-line with the user experience around chat - it can provide mailing list, forum, Q & A/gamification, chat features all in one. See https://www.discourse.org/features At the GSOC mentor summit, Yaw from Open Data Kit had some wonderful feedback about their experiences with Discourse. You can see why they switched at https://opendatakit.org/2017/06/how-to-get-started-on-the-odk-forum/ and see their implementation at https://forum.opendatakit.org/ On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 7:04 AM Javier Borkenztain <jav...@sero.uy> wrote: > Thanks all for your comments, there are strong arguments against Whatsapp, > and it seems that the biggest one is that cannot be stored on ASF servers > (for now?). > > Hipchat is good, but Whatsapp is ubiquitous and for many of us, number 1 > messaging and communication tool. > > We just need to lower the entry barriers for the non-technical > collaborators to be able to collaborate and share what are they doing, how > are they making this community better and bigger. > > Thanks again, > Javier > > > El lun., 15 oct. 2018 a las 5:12, Bertrand Delacretaz (< > bdelacre...@apache.org>) escribió: > > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 10:09 PM Javier Borkenztain <jav...@sero.uy> > > wrote: > > > > > > ...I really enjoyed the presentation > > > <http://spf13.com/presentation/what-every-open-source-project-needs/> > > James > > > Dailey shared a couple of months ago... > > > > Great reference, thank you! > > > > (BTW https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/PYTHON-532 is a fantastic example > > of how to handle "difficult" bug reports) > > > > -Bertrand > > > -- *Ed Cable* President/CEO, Mifos Initiative edca...@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649 *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>
