Slack

[Tim]

On 08/03/16 04:50, Alfredo Hernández wrote:
> Any updates about this?
For now we have #gnome on ubuntu.slack.org, although at this stage the Ubuntu instance is really just a test. People need to be invited unless
they have an ubuntu email address, however any user can invite more people.
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> Has Slack been set up for Ubuntu GNOME? Are there any (unlimited + free) alternatives?
Ali was talking about registering our own instance, don't think he has though
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> Ali has a point, Slack (and similar products) are just better for dealing with large teams, allowing natively to set up schedules, tasks, etc.
I don't think there are any hosted solutions that are unlimited on the free tier. Things like mattermost, rocket.chat hipchat, discourse would
all require us to setup/host and maintain the service.
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> On 29 February 2016 at 07:36, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm <mailto:darkxst at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
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>     On 29/02/16 01:28, Jasper Backer wrote:
>     > If we're going to need anything like this, I would say Discourse is the best fit. How are other Ubuntu-based distro's handling this?
>     Discourse seems somewhat orthogonal to IRC/Chat platforms, I guess it would be a better substitute for mailing list/forum than replacing
>     real-time messaging.
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>     Pretty much all of the flavours are still going the traditional way:
>     Mailing Lists
>     IRC
>     askubuntu + ubuntuforums.org <http://ubuntuforums.org> (we are not very active on these though, apart from maybe Lance!)
>     some flavours have a presence on reddit also
>     Ubuntu wiki
>     Launchpad for bug tracking and team management.
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>     The community team did setup a discourse instance however it looks like that is going to discontiued now.
>     http://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/future-of-this-ubuntu-discourse-instance-shutdown/2338
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