On 13 July 2017 at 17:00, Mauro Souza via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
What about IRC? It's a "no setup needed" solution, everyone can install a client, and there's lots of servers to choose from...
Indeed. These days, there's a web interface into freenode.net, which is a widely-used existing IRC server that I have used for other things. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=gtalug There are a whole bunch of access methods, nicely demonstrated thus: http://old.haxe.org/com/meeting/irc, though that article misses the emergence of "apps"; there are certainly some Android apps for this, such as HoloIRC (source on GitHub), and there sure are more than that. For the purpose that we have, I'd think that good enough. Authentication does not appear too terribly important for agreeing on a public place to eat. I'd be really loath to set up a server for this; I'd much rather point to freenode for the once-in-a-while need. That seems to be about the right level of technology for the purpose. Supposing this turns out to be an agreeable approach, we would presumably create a wiki page akin to http://old.haxe.org/com/meeting/irc with a bit more modern information (such as links to Android clients). -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"