I'd like to set something up for my students who work with me, a bit like what people have when they use IRC (which after more than 20 years I still don't grok) and slack (which is proprietary). The clickbait sites advertise 6 alternatives to slack (or 7 or 5, depending on the clickbait flavor -- https://xkcd.com/1283/ ) and I wonder if people have experience with any of them. The ones people talk about are "let's chat", "mattermost", "rocket.chat", "matrix", and I'm sure there are others. Has anyone set any of these up? I'm only interested in evaluations where people have set up their own workgroup server.
HPC is using Mattermost for instant messaging along with whatever 2-factor authentication engine your browser has (firefox and chrome both have). But I'm a user not involved with server (ping me at work and I can put you in touch with him). Best, Satsangat On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 3:29 PM Mark Galassi <mark@galassi.org> wrote:
I'd like to set something up for my students who work with me, a bit like what people have when they use IRC (which after more than 20 years I still don't grok) and slack (which is proprietary).
The clickbait sites advertise 6 alternatives to slack (or 7 or 5, depending on the clickbait flavor -- https://xkcd.com/1283/ ) and I wonder if people have experience with any of them.
The ones people talk about are "let's chat", "mattermost", "rocket.chat", "matrix", and I'm sure there are others.
Has anyone set any of these up? I'm only interested in evaluations where people have set up their own workgroup server. _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list nmglug@lists.nmglug.org http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org
Satsangat> HPC is using Mattermost for instant messaging [...] That's cool that they are going with a free s/w solution; the central lab approach is "skype for business", continuing central IT's proud history of picking proprietary and lame approaches. This raises another interesting quesiton. I took a quick stab at installing matrix-synapse, mattermost and "let's chat". matrix-synapse is packaged in debian/ubuntu and seems to not need too much other config, which is kind of cool. On the other hand mattermost needs a mysql setup, and mattermost needs a mongodb setup. So here's my question: powerful as the heavy-duty databases are, when I do a small-scale deployment I prefer to pick the SQLite option if they have it. But often (like with mattermost) they don't have that option. So I have to deal with yet another mysql setup, which is annoying. Has anyone found a state of joy in their handling of many sql setups for random bits of web backend s/w on their host? What's your secret? How do you automate and set up an "unattended reinstall" when passwords are involved?
I'd like to set something up for my students who work with me, a bit like what people have when they use IRC (which after more than 20 years I still don't grok) and slack (which is proprietary).
There are so many factors and details to dive into with a project like this. Its also very difficult when students have preconceived ideas of what a "normal" platform of communication is. The first thing that comes to my mind is Nextcloud. It is extremely robust in its core features and with all the add-ons available its extremely flexible not to mention modern. I'll send you a login to my install so you can poke around.
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