On 19 February 2016 at 13:14, Leo Francisco <li...@boywithwings.co.uk> wrote: > There are open source alternatives that may be worth exploring > MatterMost and RocketChat. There's so much hype around Slack atm, not > sure what the long term viability of it is. It's basically fancy modern > proprietary IRC. > > I would always be more enthused by an open source solution for the usual > reasons. >
On the community team we've been evaluating some of these new / fashionable / interesting methods of communication. Slack is already available at the following URL, but requires an @ubuntu or @canonical email address I believe. It might be possible to be invited to join if you don't have one of those though, they're just the pre-configured domains I believe. http://ubuntu.slack.com/ We've also been looking at Mattermost, which is a free software tool very much like Slack. I spun up a test instance at the following URL which people are welcome to play with:- https://mattermost.popey.com/ubuntu/ No guarantees it will stay up, as we're just evaluating it, but feel free to join and have a poke around or make a channel for your team/group. Cheers, -- Alan Pope Community Manager Canonical - Ubuntu Engineering and Services +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -- Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list Ubuntu-GNOME@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome
