Chat Platform

Organisation Misc
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Hi,

could we get a chat platform going? Something like Mattermost (preferable) or Slack?
Something where people could ask for help or just chat?
What do you think?

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i dunno, i’ve seen several requests for this but nobody actually started something. Let’s just open a slack channel (as slack is probably more popular and people have it running anyways at work etc, at least i do :slight_smile: ), I’d love to hang out in there and chat. Irc would be fun too

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So i created habchat.slack.com.You can join here: https://join.slack.com/t/habchat/shared_invite/enQtNDY2MDkzNjc1MDYzLWI5NzliMWE2YWYzMzViZDk3ODcwMGVjNTM4ZGMyZDUzYjFjZWExOGQwOWViNjNmYmQ0NjRlMDBjZGUwYzQwY2Y

I added RSS hooks for the openhab/ESH related github repos and such.

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@Kai,
Would it be possible to post an announcement for the Slack channel?

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No. This has been discussed before and Slack is imho not a good idea as it does not keep the history, so information that is shared there will be lost after a while. So whatever anyone creates there, this does not qualify as an official project communication channel and thus I won’t do any announcement.

If there is a real huge need in the community for a chat system, I’d rather go for hosting one (e.g. Mattermost) by the openHAB Foundation. But that requires some efforts and hosting costs and for now I felt that the forum also does a good job for random discussions already.

If you want to read more about Slack for OSS projects, you might also want to have a look at https://davelane.nz/why-slack-better-and-why-open-communities-shouldnt-use-it (and similar posts).

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Good to know, thanks

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I just join got place to take DIY I think

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I agree completely with Kai. A chat system, for the purpose of asking for help/support, benefits two people only - the one asking a question, and… no, actually, just one person, providing that someone else is online at the exact same time who might know an answer.

Asking questions in a coherent manner on this forum benefits absolutely everyone, as it has no time-restraints on the reply, and anyone can both contribute and learn from it at a later date.

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Yep I think that too. But it’s ok to talk to ppl and say hi. But if you need help with something then openhab.com with be the place.

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Fwiw, I run several Rocket.Chat instances (and I’m building a house) so I’d be happy to help set up a Rocket.Chat instance for this community… I’ve actually written up how to do it yourself: https://tech.oeru.org/docker-compose-better-way-deploy-rocketchat-wekan-and-mongodb (and a more recent update https://tech.oeru.org/upgrading-rocketchat-10x-and-mongodb-40 ) (I’m the author of the essay on Slack and why we (open communities) shouldn’t use it :grinning: @Kai linked to above)

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