[Qgis-psc] Gitter chat embed

[Vincent Picavet (ml)]

Hi,

This would be yet another proprietary service we would be tied to...
If you want a chat more proeminent on the QGIS website, why not
including an IRC webchat window somewhere ?

Not that I would really be in favour, given the risk of abuse and the
need for a team of assistance people to moderate and answer questions.
But if we do this kind of thing, could we please first look at standard,
durable, and opensource solutions ?

Vincent

 28/10/2015 20:52, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
> 
>> On 28 Oct 2015, at 20:30, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at
>> <mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>
>>     Gitter have just released a simple way to embed chats in your web
>>     site:
>>
>>     https://sidecar.gitter.im <https://sidecar.gitter.im/>
>>
>>     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/?> 
>>
>>
>>
>> ​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
> 
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Anita​
>>
>>
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>>     Regards
>>
>>     Tim
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