Interest in an IM for TLUG?
Hi all. A couple of casual; conversations took place before and after Tuesday's meeting regarding the "where to eat" issue. I suggested that maybe some situations such as this could benefit from a real-time chat system. Scott mentioned the PITA factor of TLUG itself creating and monitoring an instant messaging group, so I am volunteering to set this up IFF demand exists. That does not mean everyone has to love it, and email will continue to be the "official" place for meeting notices and official business. But I thought this might be better for those of us who are getting tired of email threads, and the newer generation that by and large detests email. The preferred (and arbitrarily chosen) tool is "Telegram". It's support for Linux is excellent, it has a (unofficial) Pidgin plugin available, and a user base already in the hundreds of millions. I know that many have Skype but I'm trying to wind its use down; the latest update, with all the sine-wave animations, is dreadful. So... please speak up if you think this would be a good thing. If you won't use it, that's OK too. All I'm looking for is reasonable expectation of use. -- Evan Leibovitch Toronto, Canada Em: evan at telly dot org Sk: evanleibovitch Tw: el56
Thanks for championing this, Evan! I'm fairly married to Slack as my instant messaging platform of choice, so the likelihood of me running another client for GTALUG chat is pretty unlikely. That said, I'm also not the most active or vocal, so receiving the email only information is fine by me. On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi all.
A couple of casual; conversations took place before and after Tuesday's meeting regarding the "where to eat" issue. I suggested that maybe some situations such as this could benefit from a real-time chat system.
Scott mentioned the PITA factor of TLUG itself creating and monitoring an instant messaging group, so I am volunteering to set this up IFF demand exists.
That does not mean everyone has to love it, and email will continue to be the "official" place for meeting notices and official business. But I thought this might be better for those of us who are getting tired of email threads, and the newer generation that by and large detests email.
The preferred (and arbitrarily chosen) tool is "Telegram". It's support for Linux is excellent, it has a (unofficial) Pidgin plugin available, and a user base already in the hundreds of millions. I know that many have Skype but I'm trying to wind its use down; the latest update, with all the sine-wave animations, is dreadful.
So... please speak up if you think this would be a good thing. If you won't use it, that's OK too. All I'm looking for is reasonable expectation of use.
-- Evan Leibovitch Toronto, Canada
Em: evan at telly dot org Sk: evanleibovitch Tw: el56
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+1 for having an IM based communication area for GTALUG. There are so many times I get IMs/Texts from people asking where we are meeting for dinner that alone would be a great help. 0 for Telegram. I'm not a fan of the "security" aspect of it and would rather if GTALUG used a more open system like Riot.im. But I would go to where the people are going. On July 13, 2017 at 4:48:24 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk (talk@gtalug.org) wrote:
Hi all.
A couple of casual; conversations took place before and after Tuesday's meeting regarding the "where to eat" issue. I suggested that maybe some situations such as this could benefit from a real-time chat system.
Scott mentioned the PITA factor of TLUG itself creating and monitoring an instant messaging group, so I am volunteering to set this up IFF demand exists.
That does not mean everyone has to love it, and email will continue to be the "official" place for meeting notices and official business. But I thought this might be better for those of us who are getting tired of email threads, and the newer generation that by and large detests email.
The preferred (and arbitrarily chosen) tool is "Telegram". It's support for Linux is excellent, it has a (unofficial) Pidgin plugin available, and a user base already in the hundreds of millions. I know that many have Skype but I'm trying to wind its use down; the latest update, with all the sine-wave animations, is dreadful.
So... please speak up if you think this would be a good thing. If you won't use it, that's OK too. All I'm looking for is reasonable expectation of use.
-- Evan Leibovitch Toronto, Canada
Em: evan at telly dot org Sk: evanleibovitch Tw: el56
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On Thu 13 Jul 2017 13:56 -0700, Myles Braithwaite 👾 via talk wrote:
+1 for having an IM based communication area for GTALUG. There are so many times I get IMs/Texts from people asking where we are meeting for dinner that alone would be a great help.
0 for Telegram. I'm not a fan of the "security" aspect of it and would rather if GTALUG used a more open system like Riot.im. But I would go to where the people are going.
Matrix/Riot can also bridge to IRC and other chat systems. https://github.com/matrix-hacks/matrix-puppet-bridge#examples
Loui Chang wrote:
Matrix/Riot can also bridge to IRC and other chat systems. https://github.com/matrix-hacks/matrix-puppet-bridge#examples
I'm going to try and complete the registration of the IRC channel so I can setup the Matrix/Riot bridge.
On 2017-07-13 04:48 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
A couple of casual; conversations took place before and after Tuesday's meeting regarding the "where to eat" issue. I suggested that maybe some situations such as this could benefit from a real-time chat system.
There is (or was) the #toronto-lug IRC channel on freenode. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny things that distract Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | the mouth-breathers, and that's why we're | powerful!" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think that's now the #gtalug channel on Freenode. I've been hanging out there with one or two others for the last few years. I don't think any of us have ever chatted with each other :-/ https://webchat.freenode.net?channels=gtalug for those who eschew IRC clients. - --Bob. On 2017-07-13 05:09 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
On 2017-07-13 04:48 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
A couple of casual; conversations took place before and after Tuesday's meeting regarding the "where to eat" issue. I suggested that maybe some situations such as this could benefit from a real-time chat system.
There is (or was) the #toronto-lug IRC channel on freenode.
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Myles Braithwaite 👾