[Qgis-psc] Gitter chat embed

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 28 Oct 2015, at 20:30, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com <mailto:tim at kartoza.com>> wrote:
> Hi All - especially Richard:
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> Gitter have just released a simple way to embed chats in your web site:
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> https://sidecar.gitter.im <https://sidecar.gitter.im/>
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> Its very nice in that it just pops in from the side of the site. Do you think we could add it to http://QGIS.org? <http://qgis.org/?>
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> ​Not sure that's something I would put on our home page ...
> Do you have a specific motivation for displaying these communications so prominently?

We use gitter.im in InaSAFE. Its a modern replacement for IRC and a very accessible way for our users to talk to us and between us. I was thinking it would be nice for people to pull up a chat directly from the web site without needing to install any software or do anything special other than registering an account with GitHub. I think having prominent and direct access to communication with other community members would be a great thing to have on our web page, so let me flip the question around a bit and ask if there is any reason why we would not want to facilitate this? Asking myself the question I guess the answer is that the channel is open for abuse - see for example https://github.com/gitterHQ/gitter/issues/332 . So maybe you are right and we are better off not putting anything on our site where we don’t control the message carefully.

Regards

Tim

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Tim Sutton

Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open source:

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* Geospatial web development
* GIS Training
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Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net
Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee

Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial

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