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style="font-family: tt;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">I know
slack is not F/OSS, but it is nearly ubiquitous. Many of my clients use
it and as such, I use it to communicate with their team as well. As much
as I hate to admit it, I have 9 slacks open right now. It can sometimes
seem like too much, but it is nice to be able to check messages in one
interface and not 20.<br><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://slack.com/pricing">https://slack.com/pricing</a><br><br>The users
are not limited in the slack free plan, but it only stores the last 10k
messages. I believe the non-profit license comes with some support which
is why it gets limited. None of the data is stored encrypted, although
the client does use TLS for transport to and from the server.<br><br>I
would prefer that everyone use IRC or jabber since you can tie those
into the same client and even use PKI over jabber, but alas, they don't.
Slack is the new way of the world for the time being.<br><br>It could
also help grow and expand the group by making it more accessible to
those who are not "if it isn't IRC or ICQ, get of my lawn" type folks.<br><br>I
would toss my vote for slack for none other than how I have seen it
help other users' groups grow.<br><br>Someday - I'll jump on the
freenode IRC - I just have to remember which server and which screen my
irssi client live on.<br><br>Mac <br><br></span><br><span>Michael Butash
wrote on 12/31/19 11:57 AM:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"
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dir="ltr">I was looking at this for something else, and thought this
might be nice for PLUG. <div><br></div><div><a
href="https://slack.com/help/articles/204368833-Slack-for-Nonprofits"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://slack.com/help/articles/204368833-Slack-for-Nonprofits</a></div><div><br></div><div>I
use Slack chat a lot with various customers and partners, and it's free
to nonprofits ala PLUG (I think) if under 250 users. Not sure how many
folks are actually joined to PLUG offer that to everyone (that would
actually participate), but I'd be interested in joining it if one
existed with the folks that normally participated here.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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