I strongly recommend Slack. It has been used in many national labs nowadays. Smartphone apps are also done nicely.
On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 4:43 PM Ruben Di Battista <[email protected]> wrote: > I suggest to get a look to Matrix.org. They perfectly integrate with IRC, > but they have bridges for everything. No need to self host (but you can and > it's federated with the rest of the fédération) > > It's a pretty cool technology IMHO. > > > On Thu, 9 May 2019, 23:38 Mojca Miklavec, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I know that our official channels only include mailing lists, IRC and >> PR/ticket discussion so far, but I'm curious about your stand with >> respect to setting up a service like Zulip Chat / Rocket Chat / ... >> for aiding the GSOC communication when higher frequency of potentially >> simple questions would be needed. I know IRC could fulfill such a >> task, but it doesn't work too well for me. (I'm offline when at work, >> cannot really use phone efficiently for communication etc..) >> >> Would it be realistic to install such a service on breaburn if needed? >> (Or is it too complex / too much work?) >> >> I strongly suspect that one of those services also integrates pretty >> well with IRC. I've been using Slack, Zulip, Discord, Gitter at >> various occasions and I like the way they work. >> >> Thank you, >> Mojca >> >
