I am exactly in Tim's situation.  My situation has changed so that I no
longer care about private repositories.

Going through the gitter login process I did not have to pass any page with
which I was uncomfortable.  This may be different now that I'm not the free
rather than micro plan however.


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Tim Lahey <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1 to Gitter.
>
> It's unfortunate that GitHub doesn't have support for more restricted
> scopes, but since I dropped my private repos (after I finished my thesis),
> I'm fine with Gitter. I like that it's persistent. It makes it more likely
> that people could get help, assuming that people are okay with Gitter's
> permissions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim.
>
>
> On 24 Feb 2014, at 20:21, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>
>  Now that Google Summer of Code is under way, I'd like to get the
>> community's opinion again on using Gitter
>> (https://gitter.im/sympy/sympy).
>>
>> Last time, some people were concerned about the OAuth scope requested
>> by Gitter. This is explained at
>> https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200176672-
>> Authenticating-with-GitHub.
>>
>> I personally think Gitter is great. It's free, persistant (you don't
>> have to be online to see messages), and the developers are friendly.
>> It also has cool features that integrate with GitHub.
>>
>> Previously we have used IRC, and our channel is still active. But the
>> channel is not very active. You can see from the logs
>> (http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_logs/sympy) that quite a few
>> people come to the channel with questions, but no one is there to
>> answer them. With Gitter, someone could answer the question later on.
>>
>> Anyway, I'd like to know if the community supports making Gitter the
>> "official" chat room of SymPy (and if no, do you have any better
>> alternatives?). If so, then I will add links to the home page and the
>> GSoC info page, and also to the /topic of #sympy.
>>
>> If we do this, I'd appreciate it if people could idle in the channel,
>> and provide support to people, especially the prospective GSoC
>> students. If you use Mac OS X, you can get their Mac app
>> (https://gitter.im/apps), and go to the Notification settings in
>> System Preferences and change the notifications for Gitter to alert
>> instead of badge, so that they stay on your screen. There is also a
>> menubar icon that badges.
>>
>> Getting help in IRC (mostly from Ondrej) made a huge difference for me
>> when I started with SymPy, especially when it came to git issues
>> (which everyone has). So I think it's really important to provide that
>> to our students.
>>
>> Aaron Meurer
>>
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