[technology taskforce] Evaluation of Group Chat services as a replacement for Instant Messaging/Group Chat like Skype

[Dev Anand Teelucksingh]

Thanks, Beran - Email invitation sent

Dev Anand


On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Beran Gillen - Yahoo <berangillen at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Dear Dev
>
> I am interested in testing it out. Have downloaded it on my iPhone and
> have created an account with my yahoo email account.
>
> Let me know what's next:-)
>
> Beran
>
> On 2 Jun 2014, at 06:29, Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> With the At-Large Social Media WG (formerly the At-Large Curation WG) for
> the At-Large Social Media Strategy established, one of the challenges has
> been how to coordinate updates from the Social WG to At-Large Staff during
> the ICANN and ATLAS II meeting in London.
>
> While Skype allows for instant messaging chat in groups and its in use by
> At-Large,
> there are significant disadvantages to Skype:
>
> - there is no way to separate topics inside a group, the only way is to
> create a new group to discuss the issue.
> - difficult to share files with the group - often the workaround is to
> link to the wiki or dropbox
> for everyone to click on
> - Skype on mobile drains battery (at least on iOS)
>
> I believe I found a solution that could be a game changer in the way
> At-Large works. These type of solutions are a form of group chat with the
> ability to create multiple groups where members join and send and receive
> messages and files. Many of these services offer mobile apps so you can
> send and receive messages (and files) on your mobile phone.
>
> There are 4 services I've noticed
>
> - https://slack.com/
> - http://www.hipchat.com/
> - http://unison.com/
> - https://hall.com/
>
> I've only looked at two Slack and hipchat and so far, I'm very impressed
> with Slack as I think it solves the problem for the Social Media WG to
> collaborate during the ATLAS II.
>
> I'm almost sorry for not scheduling the TTF call on June 2 but I think we
> can perhaps get a head start by looking at slack.com and then perhaps for
> future TTF calls, evaluate the other solutions.
>
> For Slack.com, who's interested in testing it out? :-)
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Dev Anand Teelucksingh
> TTF chair
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