Re: [libreplanet-discuss] slack alternative: kaiwa, a modern XMPP client

[Rudolf]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 4:11 AM, rysiek <rysiek@hackerspace.pl> wrote:
> Dnia środa, 8 kwietnia 2015 10:42:49 Rudolf pisze:
> > I've encouraged the use of Slack at the office in my last two jobs because
> > despite it being proprietary it has a really nice interface and it did
> > support IRC (and XMPP at some point). I viewed it as the lesser evil when
> > the only choices were Google Hangouts, Skype or Lync.
> >
> > Kaiwa is a web-based interface to XMPP and it looks modern and it actually
> > looks very similar to Slack. The hard part now is convincing management to
> > deploy an XMPP server ;)
>
> How about "you don't want a third party company reading our internal
> conversations; and you might want to have a communication channel that is
> instant and more direct tha e-mail."
>

That may not work. They're happy to use Gmail, Google Drive, Github
and JIRA but when it comes to user's data we only use our own hosted
software (no cloud databases or servers or external logging services),
things like GrayLog or Zabbix for monitoring are apparently very good
to host internally too.