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In this article, explore the many open source options for connecting to IRC and find the one that works best for you.
Source: The top four Internet Relay Chat clients | Opensource.com
Of particular interest is Kiwi IRC, web based client that is powered by node.js and provides embeddable widgets so you can add chat to your website.
4 open source chat applications for team collaboration | Opensource.com http://opensource.com/business/15/9/alternatives-slack-team-chat?sc_cid=70160000000x3w9AAA
Start automating your business tasks with Slack — Why Not? — Medium https://medium.com/why-not/what-will-the-automated-workplace-look-like-495f9d1e87da
Google Calendar Reminders Come to Slack | Several People Are Typing http://slackhq.com/post/124767707715/googlecalendar
Socket.IO P2P provides an easy and reliable way to setup a WebRTC connection between peers and communicate using the socket.io-protocol.
Socket.IO is used to transport signaling data and as a fallback for clients where the WebRTC
PeerConnectionis not supported. Adding a simple piece of middleware to your socket.io setup enables this – no need to hand roll your own signaling exchange or set up, deploy and scale new servers.
Source: Socket.IO — Socket.IO P2P
There is potential here to create a secure, non-archived chat system that would be useful for education. Add chat to a CALI eLangdell Lawbook for example, or enable law student study groups.
5 open source collaborative text editors | Opensource.com http://opensource.com/business/15/7/five-open-source-alternatives-google-docs
Firepad – An open source collaborative code and text editor http://www.firepad.io/#1
Hack.chat is a minimal, distraction free chat app that runs in your browser https://github.com/AndrewBelt/hack.chat
We’re a YC-backed indie video game company releasing an open source alternative to Slack.
It’s called “Mattermost” and it’s the team communication service our company’s run on since last year. Like Slack, you can send messages and files across channels, get notifications on unreads and mentions, and search history–all from your PC or smartphone.
Unlike Slack, Mattermost is open source. You can download the code, run it on your own servers, and modify it as you wish.
This was bound to happen sooner or later. Appears to be written in Go.
Workplace collaboration platform Slack has been a runaway success since opening for business just over a year ago: the company co-founded and led by Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield now has 1.1 million daily active users, with 300,000 of them paying for premium tiers of the service bringing in annual recurring revenue of $25 million. Now, Slack is stepping up its game and getting more serious about how it builds out its wider ecosystem. April Underwood — a longtime director of product at Twitter — has been appointed Slack’s first head of platform, a new role at the company.
As Slack Hits 1M Daily Users And 900K Integration Installs, It Hires April Underwood As Head Of Platform | TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/24/as-slack-hits-1m-daily-users-and-900k-integration-installs-it-hires-april-underwood-as-head-of-platform/
During my talk on Slack at CALIcon15 someone asked why I was putting my internal communication eggs into a basket that may b be home in a year. I replied that I thought Slack would be around next year and for years to come. This move seems to support my position.