[gmx-developers] team communication tools for GROMACS

[Roland Schulz]

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.

Roland

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Szilárd Páll <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>
> 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>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 2015-09-29 20:18 GMT+02:00 Szilárd Páll <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 with 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?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Vedran
>>>
>>> --
>>> Vedran Miletić
>>> http://vedranmileti.ch/
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