[gmx-developers] team communication tools for GROMACS

[Berk Hess]

This depends on where we want to keep information related to how to 
contribute to Gromacs. If this lives somewhere else on the wiki, a long 
blog history is not so important. We might need to copy parts of useful 
posts to the wiki then.

Cheers,

Berk

On 10/02/2015 04:00 PM, Szilárd Páll wrote:
> I personally think that starting to use a collaborative platform by 
> severely restricting who can participate partly defeats the purpose of 
> the new tool. Such a restriction will severely limit the possibilities 
> for interaction with new people. Whatever we choose, I think it's 
> crucial to allow wide participation with as low barrier as possible 
> while ensuring that the features code-devs want are well-supported.
>
>
> I wonder how important is a saving history for very long periods?
>
> I see a few use cases:
> - Casual and semi-formal dev interaction on various channels; 
> typically short-term chats, I imagine e.g. discussing a/some of 
> changes (e.g. switching form gerrit for more interactivity, starting a 
> quick hangout from there if needed)
> - Help and support channel for non-core/code devs, e.g. method 
> developers, people interested in using the code for their research, 
> infrequent contributors, HPC center sysadmins, distro maintainers, etc.
> - Longer-term planning, decision-making and discussion e.g. on a 
> planned feature.
>
> It seems to me that some of this, in particular the first two do not 
> necessarily need archival (or information could be dumped from the 
> lack channel when it seems useful/necessary).
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Szilárd
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Erik Lindahl <erik.lindahl at gmail.com 
> <mailto:erik.lindahl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>>     On 01 Oct 2015, at 23:33, Roland Schulz <roland at utk.edu
>>     <mailto:roland at utk.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 5:32 AM, Szilárd
>>     Páll<pall.szilard at gmail.com <mailto:pall.szilard at gmail.com>>wrote:
>>
>>         On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Roland Schulz<roland at utk.edu
>>         <mailto:roland at utk.edu>>wrote:
>>
>>             There are a couple see for example:
>>             http://beebom.com/2015/04/slack-alternatives-for-team-communication
>>
>>
>>         I've seen this list, unfortunately none of those listed
>>         seemed to offer a great deal more/better functionality than
>>         slack - except perhaps HipChat with 25k history limit, or Pie
>>         with no limits _but_  data lock-in due to lack of export in
>>         the free version - , but I have to admit, I only browsed briefly.
>>
>>
>>     I think the pricing structure for slack is quite bad for us. I
>>     think the 10,000 is not sufficient in the medium term. And it is
>>     probably to expensive to use anything other than their free plan.
>>     And if we hit the limit and can't afford upgrading, then even if
>>     they let us allow to export data, we would loose all experience,
>>     integration, and training with that system.
>>
>>     Bitrix24 has a first paid plan which might be affordable and a
>>     limit which is probably sufficient even in the medium term. The
>>     free plan is sufficient to test.
>>
>>     We might want to ask for some of them whether they would be
>>     willing to offer us a plan as a academic open-source project
>>     which is discounted. And we should make sure that the pricing
>>     plan is sustainable for the long term so that we don't need to
>>     switch later.
>
>     Slack appears to offer educational plans with 85% discount, which
>     might work.
>
>     To keep the number of accounts manageable, I think we could do
>     something where active developers (basically those who frequently
>     commit code) get personal/paid slack accounts on our tab, and then
>     there are features where we can invite guest users into open
>     channels so anybody can participate in those discussions even
>     though they might not be as active developing.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Erik
>
>
>
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