Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Steve, On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 06:12:19 +0200 Steve G. word...@gmail.com wrote: The question: Is there a messaging platform that is either open source or free (I know of Viber and WhatsApp), BUT which can work on PC's AND cheap phones (either feature phones, or text only phones) in addition

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Steve G. word...@gmail.com writes: The question: Is there a messaging platform that is either open source or free (I know of Viber and WhatsApp), BUT which can work on PC's AND cheap phones (either feature phones, or text only phones) in addition to smart phones. I believe that Viber runs

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org writes: Steve G. word...@gmail.com writes: Is there a messaging platform that is either open source or free Eh, Twitter? ;-) [Clarification] I obviously read free as free as beer, despite being aware of GNU's 30th anniversary that was acouple of weeks

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On 10-Oct-13 3:11, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: "Steve G." word...@gmail.com writes: The question: Is there a messaging platform that is either open source or free (I know of Viber and WhatsApp), BUT which can work on PC's AND cheap phones (either

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread Steve G.
Suppose I wanted to change venue to a more developed country, where the income level allows people to use unlimited SMS, would that have made any difference? In other words, is there a messaging system, OSS or not, that can be used both on phone and computers? I suppose Skype might be one, but it

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 10/10/2013 3:50 PM, Steve G. wrote: Suppose I wanted to change venue to a more developed country, where the income level allows people to use unlimited SMS, would that have made any difference? In other words, is there a messaging system, OSS or not, that can be used both on phone and

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On 10-Oct-13 9:08, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On 10/10/2013 3:50 PM, Steve G. wrote: Suppose I wanted to change venue to a more developed country, where the income level allows people to use unlimited SMS, would that have made any

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned XMPP yet.. Also for newer phones and the type of communication you want (one-way broadcast) there's cell broadcast if the providers/government are willing to cooperate. In the end of the day though you'd be looking at a system that mixes multiple different

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il writes: I'm surprised no-one has mentioned XMPP yet.. It's a protocol, not an application. I actually thought of it in relation to GoogleTalk (or whatever it is caled thse days - not sure), but Google seem to have dropped server-to-server XMPP so you need

Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-09 Thread Steve G.
The question: Is there a messaging platform that is either open source or free (I know of Viber and WhatsApp), BUT which can work on PC's AND cheap phones (either feature phones, or text only phones) in addition to smart phones. I believe that Viber runs on some tablet, but not generally.

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 10/10/2013 7:12 AM, Steve G. wrote: I want to reach two levels of people - community health workers (CHW), and the people who receive their services. So there are two 'target audiences'. I can possibly provide CHW's with feature phones, but not expensive smart phones. Regular people will