[Noisebridge-congress] The great what thing should we use to chat during Congress thread

[tedward]

I'd be interested in trying out Matrix (created an account: @tedward), but
I'm alright with using Google too.

I think it would be cool to have location sharing. Seen Pathshare
<https://pathsha.re/>? It's got timed-session-based
group location sharing, and only appears to do the one thing. Works on
android & i-os and you can share sessions via link (so you can paste a
session link into a chat room and people can choose to join or not). I'm
not sure how to interperet their privacy policy.

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:

> Ahoy ahoy. I really really really want to use Matrix but it still seems
> like it has a lot of maturing to do.
>
> It seems like our main choices right now are...
>
> - Hangouts: Use the thing we already use while alienating some people and
> supporting The Man
> - LINE: Has the same annoyances as Hangouts but The Man is in Japan.
> Provides short term live location tracking, still needs verification over
> phone. P2P closed source encryption to single parties.
> - Slack: Would annoying a lot of people already in the Noisebridge Slack
> group, no location stuff, no P2P encryption.
> - Matrix: Open source, missing a lot of useful features, no real crypto
> other than SSL.
> - Signal: Phone number verification required. Is weird with offline
> messaging. Lots of missing bonus features.
> - Let's Chat: Open source! Someone would have to run a MongoDB instance,
> no good crypto.
>
> I'd honestly like to give the location tracking abilities of LINE a try,
> which I think could happen separately of chat.
>
> Hangouts currently works mostly well. We could just stick with that? Is
> there a strong desire to use something else?
>
>
> On 13 December 2015 at 04:32, Ben Kochie <ben at nerp.net> wrote:
>
>> Neat, has anyone made a jabber federation gateway for it?
>>
>> -ben
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 13 Dec 2015, Torrie Fischer wrote:
>>
>> Hi, congresscritters.
>>>
>>> So, a bit ago I found a new shiny thing and got super excited about it.
>>> Its
>>> called Matrix. I've added it to the spreadsheet:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b5v13AHXXQkC6EfvpL-u8vYmAFQWPlr-9ZjRNT1NGCY/edit#gid=0
>>>
>>>
>>> I haven't heard any new discussion really, unless its been AFK in the
>>> space.
>>> Here try it, self-hosted: https://oob.systems/chat/
>>>
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