What about IRC? It's a "no setup needed" solution, everyone can install a client, and there's lots of servers to choose from...
On Jul 13, 2017 17:57, "Myles Braithwaite 👾 via talk" <[email protected]> wrote: +1 for having an IM based communication area for GTALUG. There are so many times I get IMs/Texts from people asking where we are meeting for dinner that alone would be a great help. 0 for Telegram. I'm not a fan of the "security" aspect of it and would rather if GTALUG used a more open system like Riot.im. But I would go to where the people are going. On July 13, 2017 at 4:48:24 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk ([email protected]) wrote: > Hi all. > > A couple of casual; conversations took place before and after Tuesday's > meeting regarding the "where to eat" issue. I suggested that maybe some > situations such as this could benefit from a real-time chat system. > > Scott mentioned the PITA factor of TLUG itself creating and monitoring an > instant messaging group, so I am volunteering to set this up IFF demand > exists. > > That does not mean everyone has to love it, and email will continue to be > the "official" place for meeting notices and official business. But I > thought this might be better for those of us who are getting tired of email > threads, and the newer generation that by and large detests email. > > The preferred (and arbitrarily chosen) tool is "Telegram". It's support > for Linux is excellent, it has a (unofficial) Pidgin plugin available, and > a user base already in the hundreds of millions. I know that many have > Skype but I'm trying to wind its use down; the latest update, with all the > sine-wave animations, is dreadful. > > ​So... please speak up if you think this would be a good thing. If you > won't use it, that's OK too. All I'm looking for is reasonable expectation > of use. > > -- > Evan Leibovitch > Toronto, Canada > > Em: evan at telly dot org > Sk: evanleibovitch > Tw: el56 > > --- > > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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