Hi HN !
There is a lot of great services like Grove.io or Hichat available for teams.
Are there open-sourced alternatives for these services ?<p>Thanks !
Short answer: yes.<p>Long answer: You haven't defined your wants and requirements so I couldn't possibly answer this question effectively at this time.
If you are looking for an async MUC bot writen in Python, here is a pretty good one that has been really easy to write plugins for:
<a href="https://github.com/Netflix/brutal" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Netflix/brutal</a>
<a href="https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway</a> adds persistence and a web based client to IRC.
You would be looking for either an IRC bouncer or something like Kandan <a href="http://kandanapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://kandanapp.com/</a><p>Cheers
Get an IRC client that supports plug-ins and scripts and create your own tools. I use IRSSI and there are loads of scripts available to use as a starting point.
there are no good IRC tools for teams. IRC is like a telephone that rings silently - at any moment one of your team could be online hoping to chat / ask a question / get vital info. And you must constantly be burning cycles checking the IRC, just in case. because it would be rude to leave someone hanging<p>so may I suggest one of those newfangled email lists and SMS texts when you really need to reach someone