[kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

[Oddvar Lovaas]

Hi guys,

just jumping in here after briefly talking to Alex L. in Matrix. As he 
might have mentioned, Matrix itself is "just" the open standard. There 
are many Matrix-enabled clients - we collect all of them (atleast the 
ones we know about!) here: 
https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html

We are also working on a feature-rich client for web and mobile called 
Vector (vector.im) - and with Matrix' guest access feature you can try 
it without having to sign up at https://vector.im/beta/#kde:matrix.org 
(This goes directly to a KDE room I just set up).

Mobile clients are available on the Apple and Google stores, as well as 
on F-droid.

Matrix is not just messaging though (in fact all we are doing, is 
exchanging JSON-blobs), and we natively support VoIP calling via WebRTC.

Matrix wants to link together all communication services, and we already 
have an IRC-bridge, a slack-bridge, a gitter bridge and more. The 
community have written other bridges, including XMPP and 
hubot-integration to Rocket Chat. Again there's a list on 
https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html#application-services

I'm happy to try to answer any questions you may have on Matrix/Vector - 
either here or in Matrix! It would be great to get you all using Matrix, 
and I am very happy to help setting things up for you!

Best regards,
Oddvar

On 26/07/16 10:33, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 18 July 2016 at 16:58, Filipe Saraiva <filipe at kde.org> wrote:
>> If there is some interest in this test, please let me know and I can
>> foward the reply for them.
> at WikiToLearn we set up a test instance on one of our staging servers.
> You can login with phabricator details on https://chat.wikitolearn.org ;
> It is a testing instance, so you're free to try all the features, but
> please try not to spam it too much; we're trying to use it in our
> everyday communication (to evaluate it) and would like to keep the
> database when (and if) we will move it to production!
>
> Bye,
> -Riccardo