[Chapter-delegates] Chat tools for chapters

[Christian de Larrinaga]

UK chapter does not have a "best practice" for chat.

I setup and manage Mailman for the chapter. We have two community lists
currently. One for universities and the other for policy. Where an
archive is helpful this is the main service we use.

We have chapter email service with a contacts address and each team
member is given and able to have a chapter email address.

Each email address also supports a Jabber account. As I  include Jabber
(XMPP) server in the chapter hosting service. But this is not being used
very much as chapter email accounts are largely used to forward mail to
a users own email service.

Each member and community tends to decide what they want to do to keep
in touch. Tools I've seen being used include WhatsApp, Signal, Wire,
Skype, Zoom and Livestream.

Some of the more technical communities we rub shoulders with use IRC and
or Jabber extensively.

Web chat such as Slack, Plivo and use of chat bots are not being used
widely for chapter communications as far as I know. I do use them myself
to keep in touch with various developer and business communities. But
these can be rather disjointed and I think they have other pitfalls such
as encouraging noise to signal problems and are often rather unstable.

best Christian

> Hirotaka Nakajima <mailto:hiro at awa.sfc.keio.ac.jp>
> 13 June 2017 at 10:09
> Dear Chapter leaders,
>
> My name is Hirotaka Nakajima, Program Chair of Japan Chapter.
>
> Sorry for the message but we would like to hear the best practices
> from other chapters about chat tools.
>
> Currently we're using Slack (Free edition) for commutations among
> officers.
> As it is very useful, we're considering to enhance to committees and
> WGs of the Chapter.
>
> However, Slack Free edition has limitations such as maximum messages
> stored in the service, so we're looking for alternative solution or
> way to use Slack with non-profit organization pricing.
>
> If your chapter uses chat tools, please share the practices.
>
> Best,
> Hiro
>
> --
> Hirotaka Nakajima
> Program Chair, ISOC(Internet Society) Japan Chapter
> Assistant Professor, Keio University
> GPG: 0x752E6CE9
>
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