<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Nicolás Alvarez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> El 3 mar 2016, a las 04:45, Alexander Semke <<a href="mailto:alexander.semke@web.de">alexander.semke@web.de</a>> escribió:<br>
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> Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2016, 02:20:00 schrieb Valorie Zimmerman:<br>
>> Hi folks, during GCi I noticed how much the Wikitolearn team and<br>
>> students enjoyed and used their Telegram channels.<br>
> Just out of pure interest, why Telegram and not Slack? I think Slack is also<br>
> quite popular nowadays...<br>
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</span>As far as I know there is nothing open about Slack.<br>
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The Telegram protocol is public, every official Telegram client is free software, there are no features limited to paying users...<br>
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In more practical matters, using Slack would mean KDE has to create a "team" (would a free account even work for our needs?), then everyone has to get *invited* to the team and create a team-specific account with a username and password. Using Telegram means people sign up with their phone number, and can join eg. the SoC group by clicking a public link, and don't need to sign up separately to use Telegram for non-KDE purposes.<br>
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Besides, many KDE people are *already* using Telegram and are *already* in KDE groups, so there better be a damn good reason to add or switch to yet another communication system.<br>
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I use Slack (I'm inconveniently in two teams), and honestly I don't understand *why* it's popular. Must be people who were forced to use it at work and then outside work want to use what they know...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, its mostly because there is no setup effort involved. For teams who don't really care about what happens to the data etc its quite perfect.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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