Thanks for that Popey. Will have a play with Mattermost when I get a chance.
We should have a look at this, even if it's just for fun. Leo On 19/02/16 13:32, Alan Pope wrote: > 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, -- Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list Ubuntu-GNOME@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome
