One problem that I have with IRC is being firewalled due to the ports (at work or vpn).
I also find the mobile clients for the Slack-like alternatives to be much better than any IRC mobile client I've found. And just a generally higher level of functionality while still allowing IRC clients (via some IRC gateway). Mike ---- Michael Smith US Army Corps Remote Sensing GIS/Center michael.sm...@usace.army.mil -----Original Message----- From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Sandro Santilli <s...@keybit.net> Date: Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 8:35 AM To: Michael Smith <michael.smith.e...@gmail.com> Cc: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo thoughts on discussion/collaboration platform hosting Resent-From: Michael Smith <michael.sm...@usace.army.mil> >On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 08:16:10AM -0400, Michael Smith wrote: >> Along the lines of code hosting, do we want to think about some kind of >> OSGeo hosted Slack-like service for the community / projects, eg >> MatterMost, RocketChat, etc? >> >> >> I wanted to start this as a separate topic although a lot of these >> alternatives are based on git or gitlab so its a very related >>discussion. >> >> What would be useful to OSGeo projects? > >It takes a poll, I guess. >Personally, IRC serves me well (but we could add an irc server link to >the freenode network from osgeo machines :) > >BTW: this wiki page may be helpful, and surely can be enhanced: >Blockedhttp://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:SaaSS_replacementsBlocked > >--strk; >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >Blockedhttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discussBlocked _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss