I completely agree with this is why I did not push it further I just brought it to your attention.
In any case, I am fine with Slack and I rely mostly on this mailing list anyway. I rather focus on coding for Pharo than worry about a chat system ;) On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 6:51 PM Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < off...@riseup.net> wrote: > 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. > > > > >
