On 27/02/16 16:18, Khurshid Alam wrote: > Hi, > > Slack is quite efficient I think. You can have moderated channels and public > channels (still requires a slack id though). It is always better > to go with something that have some sort of notification systems for mobile > and desktops. Free service includes browsing 10k most recent > messages (rest are archived). Shouldn't that be enough? Well one of the advantadges people say about slack is that it maintains a full history, but really that is somewhat limited. based on our IRC channel which isnt particularly busy, that might give like 6months of history.
What about making announcements to a slack channel, can you do that? or they just get eaten up in the backlog, which is particulary verbose given all the pretty formatting and what not. > > Btw, is there a telegram group for Ubuntu-Gnome? I couldn't find it. May I > also join? Artwork/Marketing team are on telegram, thats the only one that I know of. > > Thanks. > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Leo Francisco <li...@boywithwings.co.uk > <mailto:li...@boywithwings.co.uk>> wrote: > > 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 > <mailto: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 <mailto:Ubuntu-GNOME@lists.ubuntu.com> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome > > > > -- Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list Ubuntu-GNOME@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome
