[gmx-developers] team communication tools for GROMACS

[David van der Spoel]

On 30/09/15 16:08, Roland Schulz wrote:
> There are a couple see for example:
> http://beebom.com/2015/04/slack-alternatives-for-team-communication
> http://opensource.com/business/15/9/alternatives-slack-team-chat
>
> But I don't have any personal experience.

Mattermost looks cool except it is not really there yet, at least they 
are talking about phone apps but there is no iphone app yet. But maybe 
they will release it tomorrow...

>
> Roland
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Szilárd Páll <pall.szilard at gmail.com
> <mailto:pall.szilard at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     PS: Forgot to mention that OSS - or at least OSS-based tool would be
>     a great benefit, but even if such an option does exist we need to
>     find it (and it should preferably not require self-hosting).
>
>     --
>     Szilárd
>
>     On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Szilárd Páll
>     <pall.szilard at gmail.com <mailto:pall.szilard at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         IRC has been on my radar and in fact it has been suggested a
>         while ago during GROMACS dev discussion, but somehow it has
>         never had enough appeal to get adopted by developers.
>
>         One likely reason is the barrier to start using IRC and that
>         integration of other productivity tools is quite DYI. AFAIK
>         these are the aspects where slack - and possibly other similar
>         alternatives win: user-friedliness and service-integration e.g.
>         Google hangouts for video calls, Gihub, Dropbox/Box, Github,
>         custom hooks (e.g. we could have jenkins, gerrit messages
>         posted, etc.).
>
>         Interestingly Slack has won over some communities, a notable
>         example is WP:
>         https://make.wordpress.org/chat/
>         and this post points out some of the differences between the two
>         and why they've switched to slack.
>
>         I'll wait a bit more, but if there are no competing thoughts
>         I'll set up slack and see how well it works.
>
>         Cheers,
>         --
>         Szilárd
>
>         On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Vedran Miletić
>         <rivanvx at gmail.com <mailto:rivanvx at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             2015-09-29 20:18 GMT+02:00 Szilárd Páll
>             <pall.szilard at gmail.com <mailto:pall.szilard at gmail.com>>:
>             > Hi,
>             >
>             > We are considering to try using a team collaboration tool for GROMACS
>             > development-related communication (perhaps user hangout room too?).
>             >
>             > As I have some experience withslack.com <http://slack.com> (not much, though), so I was about
>             > to go ahead and create a channel, but noticed that it has a slightly
>             > inconvenient restriction: max 10k messages kept in the history.
>             >
>             > So I thought I'd ask:
>             > - does anybody have experience with slack (either good or bad)?
>             > - does anybody know anything better?
>             >
>
>             How about IRC on freenode.net <http://freenode.net>?
>
>             Regards,
>             Vedran
>
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