Excerpts from Dimitris Chloupis's message of 2015-12-16 11:04:04 +0100:
So since Slack has been so successful for our community , far more that IRC has been in terms of participation and useful discussions (at least the 2 years I have been around)
it made me wonder if I could find an open source alternative to Slack that is at least as good as it if not better without a very different workflow (so we have to learn everything from zero) all the big pros and something that could easily interface with Pharo.
Ladies and gentlemen meet Rocket Chat
The good news about Rocket chat is that it seems to have all the pros of Slack like close integration with tweeter, github etc etc . It has clients for all OS and mobile devices.
what it doesn't have is support for irc clients: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/1259 for me, that's a deal breaker. because as nice as these services are, i don't have the patience to run a dozen clients for all different communication services. it is bad enough that these services are not federated and i have to connect to them to communicate, but at least support for common, already existing clients, should be there. it does seem to have an irc bridge at least. a bit ugly, but workable. but there is also mattermost: http://mattermost.org/ (and it has irc client support) seems at least as mature as rocket.chat. greetings, martin. -- eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life -- chief engineer eKita.co pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net societyserver.org secretary beijinglug.org mentor fossasia.org foresight developer foresightlinux.org realss.com unix sysadmin Martin Bähr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/