Re: [edk2-announce][RFC] Collaboration Software: Microsoft Teams

[Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org>]

On Friday, 4 January 2019 03:09:02 MST Knop, Ryszard wrote:
> I think any solution like that should be publicly available for an
> unlimited number of users. As it stands now, mailing lists and IRC are
> open to all - if software like Microsoft Teams is to be used, it's
> pretty likely most communication would quickly become invitation-only
> to avoid paying $8 per user. This often happens with many projects
> moving from mailing lists/IRC to something like Slack and having
> essentially zero public or searchable communications. Perhaps someone
> admining the edk2-devel list could look up the amount of subscribers
> and chime in?

There _are_ open source alternatives to Slack and Microsoft Teams - for 
example Mattermost (https://mattermost.com/), and Discord might also be an 
option (despite it being aimed pretty strongly at gamers). There's also the 
option of using IRC but having a Slack instance which uses the IRC bridge to 
allow bidirectional communication (albeit a bit clumsily). 

Personally, I'd recommend against using Microsoft Teams. I've talked to people 
who've used it and it pales in comparison to Slack.  I know teams who have 
'gone rogue' and set up their own Slack to avoid using the official Microsoft 
Teams instance.

-- 
Rebecca