People already on Telegram are far more than people willing to move to a different platform like RocketChat (which I have installed, to discover that nobody was using it).
Telegram groups are used for discussions, and it looks like there is a majority of people more familiar with Telegram than with other tools (and this has nothing to do with TDF team, but with the habits of people). IMHO, we have to reach out to people, and not force them upfront to switch to what we consider a better option. Once they have started to contribute, we can ask them to move to our preferred platform, which is a mailing list (for marketing). This is what happens today. Marketing coordination happens on the private marketing mailing list, where people are invited once they show some willingness to help (but then the reality is that these people are more active on Telegram than on the mailing list). I use IRC to communicate with other team members, although I do not like at all the system (independently from the client, as I have tested them all, to discover that they are developed by developers for developers, and not for people with a different background and mindset). The fact that we respect people willing to use IRC instead of Telegram is confirmed by bridges which have been created between the two. Bridges are available for general discussions, QA and design, so for every group where they are needed. By the way, if I had to use what my family and friends are using, I would switch to POTS and text messages, as this is what old people in industries such as communications and marketing are using (nobody is on Telegram or Slack, a few are using FB Messenger and even less WhatsApp and Skype). On 31/07/2017 14:25, ilmari.lauhakan...@libreoffice.org wrote: > I have concerns regarding the communication channels we use for working > on LibreOffice. First, it seems we are sliding into a situation where > the closed-source chat platform Telegram becomes an official channel for > team coordination. This is frustrating because there has been no > discussion about the topic. The move is apparently due to some people > wanting to use their privately preferred communication method (with > friends & family) with their work topics. All of the ones pushing > Telegram into contributor coordination are TDF employees (QA, design, > marketing). In Finland we have a saying for this sort of process: > climbing a tree butt-first. -- Italo Vignoli - LibreOffice Marketing & PR mobile/signal +39.348.5653829 - email it...@libreoffice.org hangout/jabber italo.vign...@gmail.com - skype italovignoli GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: projects+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
