Overview of Proposal

Rocket.Chat is not awesome.

Formal Proposal(s)

We should consider a new platform.

Consider:

• Gitter
  • Already popular in ETH community
  • Uses GitHub ID instead of LFID
  • Would not need LF to run another server
• Matrix
  • Recently selected by Mozilla to replace IRC
  • Open Source, would need to pay a SaaS or LF to run the server
• Mattermost
  • Would need E20 license for SAML for LFID, $8.50/user/month (open source plan is E10)

Action Items

• Converting a new chat system and preserving links will be a significant lift for the CA team
• Making sure people's old links don't break
• Making sure it works properly with LFID will need to be supported by LFIT not the CA team
• Integration with the new LFx platform again would need to be supported by LFIT and not the CA team
• How to transfer the Data or archive the current data
  
• Feature by feature comparison and spreadsheet?

Reviewed By

• Angelo De Caro
• Arnaud J Le Hors
• Christopher Ferris
• Dan Middleton
• Gari Singh
• Hart Montgomery
• Mark Wagner
• Nathan George
• Swetha Repakula
• Tracy Kuhrt
• Troy Ronda