[GTALUG] Interest in an IM for TLUG?

[Myles Braithwaite 👾]

+1 for having an IM based communication area for GTALUG. There are so many
times I get IMs/Texts from people asking where we are meeting for dinner
that alone would be a great help.

0 for Telegram. I'm not a fan of the "security" aspect of it and would
rather if GTALUG used a more open system like Riot.im. But I would go to
where the people are going.


On July 13, 2017 at 4:48:24 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk (talk at gtalug.org)
wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> A couple of casual; conversations took place before and after Tuesday's
> meeting regarding the "where to eat" issue. I suggested that maybe some
> situations such as this could benefit from a real-time chat system.
>
> Scott mentioned the PITA factor of TLUG itself creating and monitoring an
> instant messaging group, so I am volunteering to set this up IFF demand
> exists.
>
> That does not mean everyone has to love it, and email will continue to be
> the "official" place for meeting notices and official business. But I
> thought this might be better for those of us who are getting tired of email
> threads, and the newer generation that by and large detests email.
>
> The preferred (and arbitrarily chosen) tool is "Telegram". It's support
> for Linux is excellent, it has a (unofficial) Pidgin plugin available, and
> a user base already in the hundreds of millions. I know that many have
> Skype but I'm trying to wind its use down; the latest update, with all the
> sine-wave animations, is dreadful.
>
> ​So... please speak up if you think this would be a good thing. If you
> won't use it, that's OK too. All I'm looking for is reasonable expectation
> of use.
>
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