[Inpycon] Chat platform-Zulip for Pycon

[Kumar Anirudha]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 11:36, Sayan Chowdhury <gmail at yudocaa.in> wrote:

> 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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Cheers,
Kumar Anirudha
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