[SAC] replacing IRC with gitter

[Jody Garnett]

I think the point for these ones is that there are phone apps, modern
browser based front ends etc...

I think we could also respect that our board is not made up of devs per say
and different technologies may be appropriate. The board already uses a
private dropbox for documents (rather than private svn like the marketing
committee).

--
Jody Garnett

On 1 September 2016 at 00:59, Vincent Picavet (ml) <vincent.ml at oslandia.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 31/08/2016 22:17, Jody Garnett wrote:
> > Last week the board decided to try some new technologies that members
> > have used on other projects.
> >
> > - To replace email voting --> Loomio (Anita has already set
> > up https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board )
> > - To replace IRC ---> gitter (like slack but more integrated with github)
>
> I do not want to play my old-fashioned guy, but replacing standard
> technologies with proprietary protocols and tools, which each require
> its own authentication and login, does not really seem to be very
> logical wrt OSGeo's goals.
>
> Gitter/Slack is especially worst, as it is closed protocol with
> proprietary software.. Do we really want to be dependent on this kind of
> tool ?
> As a not-that-worst alternative as sandro said, mattermost can replace
> slack. Note that it can also be integrated fully into gitlab, and the
> latest versions seem to have a IRC bridge.
>
> Vincent
>
> > To that end I would like ask how we should set up gitter on the SAC
> > mailing list before opening up a ticket or doing the work myself.
> >
> > OSGeo does have a hit repo here (https://github.com/osgeo).
> >
> > I know for the geoserver project (as a repo admin) we were able to set
> > up a private channel for use in code-sprints
> > (https://gitter.im/orgs/geoserver/rooms). It looks like we may be able
> > to allow people to sign in with github or twitter.
> >
> > Could I ask to be added as and admin to https://github.com/OSGeo for
> > experimentation?
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jody Garnett
> >
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