KDE-Soc Telegram group

[Nicolás Alvarez]

> El 3 mar 2016, a las 04:45, Alexander Semke <alexander.semke at web.de> escribió:
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> Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2016, 02:20:00 schrieb Valorie Zimmerman:
>> Hi folks, during GCi I noticed how much the Wikitolearn team and
>> students enjoyed and used their Telegram channels.
> Just out of pure interest, why Telegram and not Slack? I think Slack is also 
> quite popular nowadays...

As far as I know there is nothing open about Slack.

The Telegram protocol is public, every official Telegram client is free software, there are no features limited to paying users...

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.

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.

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...

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