[Inpycon] Chat platform-Zulip for Pycon

[Sharmila Gopirajan]

I agree that sticking with an already used option is better than investing
in a new one.

We were debating between Slack (which encourages conversation but the
possibility of recovering a particular conversation after elapse of a
significant period is very low) and a StackOverflow like setup (Topic
based, high quality conversations, highly searchable but might not be
everyone's cup of tea).

One of the reasons for choosing Zulip was that it struck a nice middle
ground with chat rooms and topic based conversations and good searchability.

How does Discord fair regarding that?

Regards,
Sharmi

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 1:24 PM Kumar Anirudha <anirudhastark at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 11:36, Sayan Chowdhury <gmail at yudocaa.in> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 8:38 AM Aditi Prakash <ap2205 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > This year for PyCon India, we are planning to have a forum setup for
>> attendees to interact. We are considering Zulip, an open-source chat
>> platform similar to slack. Currently there's only PyCon India mailing list
>> but this includes the organizers and not the attendees. The reason for
>> having this in-place is to connect attendees and we believe it'll be
>> especially useful when planning commute by pooling, accommodation, etc.
>> >
>> > Zulip allows users to create channels and have topics within channels,
>> for example: "On Road Bangalore" could be a topic under #travel channel.
>> Easy search, better organization of channels and topics. Further, new users
>> can read history and the chat limit is not as bad as Slack.
>> >
>> > Additionally, we are planning to create a separate channel specifically
>> for women attendees which is sort like community support amongst women.
>> >
>> > We will also include a channel for announcements that will be linked to
>> PyCon India Twitter account.
>>
>> I'm a huge fan of the Zulip project, but I would be suggest to
>> continue using the the previously used communication channels be it
>> for organizers or attendees. Over the last few years, we have moved
>> from IRC, to Telegram, to Discord, and now Zulip. It's better to stick
>> to one and keep using it. As a user of Discord, I still keep getting
>> notifications from the PyCon India 2018 #github-updates channel.
>>
>> I would propose to that we keep continue using Discord and utilize the
>> setup that was done last year. If we plan to move to Zulip, then it's
>> better that we make it the de-facto channel for communication, (maybe
>> put it in the PyCon India handbook, if it's still something that is
>> updated regularly)
>>
>>
> +1 for sticking with discord. There can be separate channel for 2019
> attendees specifically if needed.
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