Non IRC based live chat for collaboration?

[Daniel Rich]

Is there still an objection to IRC if you run your own server instead of
using something like freenet?  You can authenticate the connection and
run the session over SSL if there are security concerns at that level.

We have been using IRC on our own private servers at work for quite some
time. With authentication (in our case against the same LDAP servers as
e-mail and logins) and a channel server you can control who has access
to which channels as well as control what is logged.  We ended up with
inspircd and anope after a bit of research, but you can do this with
most of the servers currently available.

Nicole wrote:
> Hello
> I work for a company where there really is no office. Everyone works
> at home and we have many people in various countries.
> We have been communicating via skype chat, a bug tracker like custom
> ticketing system, and email. However doing this makes it hard to
> create a way for people working on the same projects but in different
> areas to stay on top of what is being done at the moment.(bill chats
> with bob about what they are doing but henry and jane who also work on
> the same project have no idea unless then everything is then sent to
> them)  We have used IRC in the past as an instant publishing system of
> what people are working on etc. As long as you stayed logged into the
> channel, you could scroll back and see what people were talking about.
> Everyone could stay connected to what was going on. However,
> management was not a fan of having things like this out on IRC, even
> if it's a private channel.
>
> So might anyone be able to recommend an alternative live chat type of
> system where people can freely sign in and out of.  (for instance we
> cannot use skype conference as they have to be invited in)  Would
> prefer something open sourced we would install or some free service. 
> (does Google maybe have anything like that,. they seem to have
> everything)
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>  Nicole
>
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>     


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