amandine

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by amandine 11y ago
We are providing an option to bring together walled gardens with matrix.org: an open standard for federated distributed and persistent communications. It does give you the option to run your own server and bridge to other services like IRC
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by amandine 11y ago
I would blame UX there :) In my mind a collaboration tool should not be a burden, if people let it down, it means it's not appropriate. Hence the success of Slack: people realised collaboration can be made easy and real-time without be
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by amandine 11y ago
True for big corps, although it's quite strange given they're usually the most paranoid ones on security. But I was more thinking about techie SMBs to whom running a chat/collaboration server is not scary, better in terms of
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by amandine 11y ago
The problem of SaaS is having your company data stored by someone you have to trust... So I reckon it depends on your use case: if I'm a small company who doesn't want to bother running/maintaining the service then I'm m
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by amandine 12y ago
Thanks, we've started with XMPP, like many others, but it was not fitting our purpose, like for others, so instead of building our proprietary protocol (like others did) we tried to build on what we learnt and provide something others
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by amandine 12y ago
IMO the ideal world is one where everyone can use their preferred app and still be able to chat and VoIP with everyone else... Like email basically...
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by amandine 12y ago
Yes we're in touch with them. Matrix and Open Peer are complementary technologies - Matrix is focused entirely on the client/server use-case for messaging between always-on persistent federated messaging stores. Open Peer is obvio
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by amandine 12y ago
What about matrix.org who's trying to fix the fragmentation by providing an open standardized signalling layer for WebRTC? Might interest you too! We've been working on integrating with Jitsi, although not finished yet
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by amandine 12y ago
But Layer will host it for you: you give them your data. That's more what the open standard http://matrix.org is trying to do: basically learn on what is missing from XMPP to be a better fit to today's communication: n
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by amandine 12y ago
Matrix is not P2P, but is distributed: there is no single point of failure, the history is scattered across all servers which retrieve what they need from the others.