[kwlug-disc] Does anyone want to take over Thunderbird?

[Paul Nijjar]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 06:36:10PM -0500, Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) wrote:
> 

> Speaking of Slack, I found an OSS equivalent I would like to try
> out: http://www.mattermost.org. Self-hosted, OSS… open protocols and
> various “gateways” to other systems. I haven’t installed it but it
> might be worth converting away from my self-hosted statusnet
> (pre-gnu social) mental dbus…

Psst. My former coworker Devin has a dummy Mattermost install that he
says we can use if we want. I doubt we will be able to test gateways
thoroughly but we can see basic functionality.

I am happy to share invites. I do not know how I feel about putting an
invite list on the mailing list, so contact me offlist if you want
one.

There are a bunch of other Slack alternatives too, but I don't know
what rules and what drools. 

http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/18754

Does anybody know?

I still don't get the appeal of Slack, but I can think of ways that
such a tool might be useful in our organization. So I am interested in
learning a little bit about the FLOSS alternatives.

- Paul