Re:Kandan - an open Source alternative to HipChat
by rogerbinns on Friday February 08, 2013 @01:58AM
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It looks like it is browser only. We are currently looking for something like this that also has a standard protocol like XMPP. Actually all we really want is for Google Chat to support rooms for apps/business users.
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Re:Kandan - an open Source alternative to HipChat
by mweibel on Friday February 08, 2013 @03:49AM
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Full disclosure: I built Candy
You could use Candy (http://candy-chat.github.com/candy) as a nice web UI for XMPP MUC (Multi-User-Chat). It supports basic features but is easily extendable through plugins.
Re:Kandan - an open Source alternative to HipChat
by rogerbinns on Friday February 08, 2013 @05:56PM
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Apologies for not being clear. We all already have and use Google Chat. Failing that there are XMPP clients on all the relevant desktop and mobile platforms.
The one thing that has the lowest utility is a web based interface to chat since it essentially doesn't work well in the background in the same way as an app like Pidgin does.
Re:Kandan - an open Source alternative to HipChat
by drudru11 on Saturday February 09, 2013 @05:35AM
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looks pretty cool - will check it out
Re:Kandan - an open Source alternative to HipChat
by captn3m0 on Friday February 08, 2013 @03:20AM
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Have you looked into Partychat[1]. It is what we use for internal communication. You can easily create multiple rooms and it integrates with gtalk.
Re:Kandan - an open Source alternative to HipChat
by rogerbinns on Friday February 08, 2013 @05:59PM
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That looks extremely close to what we wanted. It even looks like you can run it on your own appengine instance. Thanks for the pointer.