Slack

[Tim]

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 <lists at boywithwings.co.uk <mailto:lists at 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 <lists at boywithwings.co.uk <mailto:lists at 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,
>
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