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

[Patrick O'Doherty]

FWIW there was a Signal group at 31c3 that folks were using, and it
worked alright. Signal can have intermittent message delivery issues
which are a pain.

while it'd be nice to have an alternative other than hangouts it was
very useful to have everyone in a single group conversation, especially
with location sharing.

there doesn't seem to be a viable alternative at the moment other than
maybe a Signal group and/or *maybe* a proper XMPP setup with the
extensions required to give us what we need (message replay on connection)

I'd be willing to try the XMPP route with people beforehand, and if all
fails we can use Hangouts like we did last year. If someone has XMPP
experience and wants to collaborate hit me up.

$0.02

Rubin Abdi:
> So I was hopeful that some discussion would happen here regarding what
> those of us wanting to be part of a group chat thing would want to use for
> 32C3. I'm happy to try other tools (honestly LINE looks slightly
> promising), at the same time I'm happy to just continue using Hangouts. But
> above all else it would be great if we talked about our feelings here.
> 
> --
> Rubin
> rubin at starset.net
> On Nov 16, 2015 13:55, "Rubin Abdi" <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hey all.
>>
>> So over this last Camp and Congress, we've  for the most part used Google
>> Hangouts to chat, mostly because of peer pressure form me and my uncanny
>> ability to cat herd while shitting and pissing all over myself. Some folks
>> have asked why I think using Hangouts is a good idea, and if it's possible
>> for us to use something else this coming year.
>>
>> First off this is an anarchist cat herd and you are empowered to use
>> whatever communication method as you desire (though that doesn't mean
>> anyone else will be on it to chat with you).
>>
>> Anyhow, if started this comparison chart (ironically in Google Drive/Docs)
>> to list out all the different chat options we could use and which suck the
>> less...
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b5v13AHXXQkC6EfvpL-u8vYmAFQWPlr-9ZjRNT1NGCY/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>> Feel free to add in other services. I think having a discussion with this
>> would be good and I'll feel less like a jerk when people ask me why we're
>> mostly using one specific chat service.
>>
>> --
>> Rubin
>> rubin at starset.net
>>
> 
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