I also vote for Slack - I love having things self hosted (as i type this ironically in gmail), but having too many "app(s) [services] for that" also clashes with my ability to practice the Unix philosophy of "do one thing well". 

I still use google-voice for sms as well. Until mint was definitively the cheapest pre-purchased mobile service, I could hop whenever it was cheaper to a new data plan (provider agnostic) and keep my number without any porting hassles. I also use it to avoid picking up my phone using my browsers single website mode, coincidentally my texts get a little long winded . 


On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 8:18 PM Ed <plug@0x1b.com> wrote:
Is there a presentation for January?
I would enjoy learning to IRC at the one PLUG meeting I can make
before summer...

On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 10:39 AM Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:
>
> I've had so many services over the past 25 years or so, at this point I don't do any more than I have to.  I like slack because it's business partners and customers mostly so professional, and it's pretty universal.  I ran discord for a bit last year for a game I was playing, but that's about it.  I still use gvoice/hangouts for all my sms, signal atop that, and that's about it.
>
> As Hans said, Plug does have IRC, but of all things IRC is one thing I've never gotten into using after all these years, or more never had a reason to continue using.  Perhaps less is more and should though.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 9:45 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would be interested in matter most with rocketchat a close second.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 1, 2020, 2:54 PM Seabass <PrivateSeaBass@pm.me> wrote:
>>>
>>> I’d imagine we would want to setup an open-source solution of some kind.
>>>
>>> I’d be willing to setup a rocket chat, for example, but I don’t know what that would take for our audience, not had anyone said anything about wanting one.
>>> Nobody expressing interest may also be why it never happened, though.
>>>
>>>
>>> Message: 6
>>> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 17:11:26 -0500
>>> From: Michael <bmike1@gmail.com>
>>> To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
>>> Subject: Re: Slack for PLUG
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>>>
>>> imagine if we all showed for an installfest!
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 4:46 PM Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > We've got almost a thousand on Meetup and almost 500 subscribed to this mailing list.
>>> >
>>> > Brian Cluff
>>> >
>>> > On 12/31/19 11:57 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I was looking at this for something else, and thought this might be nice for PLUG.
>>> >
>>> > https://slack.com/help/articles/204368833-Slack-for-Nonprofits
>>> >
>>> > 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.
>>> >
>>> > Thoughts?
>>> >
>>> > -mb
>>> >
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