Maybe.

But IRC is all but useless to most people - much too technical and niche - and only IT developers and those with basic IT skills know what Slack is. Despite being a Wikipedian, I only ever used it because people would insist I did to talk to them - but I'd never be able to talk to new users on it - they'd usually use email (or I'd phone them). Most professions have never heard of IRC or slack.

My work has only started using Teams in the last month, and most of us don't use that except in very specific circumstances, or where we have to because of the pandemic.

I'm aware of Zoombombing - very much aware - but Zoom is one of several options, and frankly it's no worse than IRC (or Wikipedia!) in terms of how quickly things can go wrong.

I think we can think about a video chat app we should be using, to help new people get involved and run remote events. MS Teams is good enough for work in criminal courts, surely there's something we can look at that's reasonably new?

Richard

On Wed, 6 May 2020, 17:54 Owen Blacker, < owen@blacker.me.uk> wrote:

A semi-permanent hangout is a poor match for Zoom — it would make a great target for Zoombombers.

That kind of space would be better suited to IRC or Slack, generally, no?
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On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 16:44, Richard Symonds < chasemewiki@gmail.com> wrote:
It might be nice to have a permanent-ish "hangout" chat. Some of us get to leave the house for work but I imagine for a lot of people it's rather dull at home!

On Tue, 5 May 2020, 22:57 Peter Coombe, < thewub.wiki@googlemail.com> wrote:
We will be holding the regular "London" meetup this Sunday 10 May on Zoom, anyone is free to join. Details and signup at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/154

It looks like there is also interest in holding another virtual meetup on Saturday 16 May: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:UK_Wikipedians%27_notice_board#Next_steps

Peter / the wub

On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 18:19, Richard Nevell < richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Hi all,

Since in-person meetups aren't an option at the moment, I've started a discussion about taking meetups online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:UK_Wikipedians%27_notice_board#Digital_meetups

Richard
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