KDE-Soc Telegram group

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Alexander Semke <alexander.semke at web.de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 3. März 2016, 16:00:27 schrieb Valorie Zimmerman:
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Alexander Semke <alexander.semke at web.de>
> wrote:
>> > 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...
>> >
>> > --
>> > Alexander
>>
>> I talked one of our Kubuntu guys into creating a Kub. Slack team. It
>> was pretty slick, but it felt rather icky to be using something so
>> closed-source and unfree. The Telegram channels work, especially for
>> students, which is why I make a KDE-Soc channel. In particular, the
>> Wikitolearn teams make huge use of their groups and channels, and have
>> fun with it as well as get work done.
>>
>> If your team wants to expand their reach beyond email, IRC and the KDE
>> Forums, experiment with Telegram. You may like it, and find it useful!
>> If not, no problem.
> Valorie, thanks for sharing this info. I see the benefits of such a tool and
> I'm looking into how to incorporate it into our development.
>
> Looks like there're several very good open-source alternatives:
> https://opensource.com/business/15/9/alternatives-slack-team-chat
> http://about.jabbr.net/
> https://zulip.org/
> http://t3n.de/news/open-source-messenger-oneteam-584284/
>
> Sure, those solutions needs to be (self-)hosted somewhere. But hey, KDE
> already hosts git, bugzilla, phabricator, etc. :-)

Phabricator has Compherence as one of it's functions. If using
Telegram is a major issue, and IRC not an option, I suggest using that
instead.

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>
> Regards,
> Alexander

Regards,
Ben

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