Move towards Glip approach?

[jmatsushita]

Here's a blogpost describing what the Glip approach is. This is the relevant extract:

With Glip, all of these activities take place within a conversation stream and in context, reducing the time and stress of managing multiple applications and email threads

I've been trying this and the concept is powerful. Moving "standard" things like tasks, calendar, links and files "inside" the chat rather than dealing with 2 way integration for key apps is really compelling (there are still integrations in Glip).

Is that a direction that the rocket chat team would be interested in?

Probably also of interest a Glip vs Slack comparison with a simple take-away "Slack = Chat + Integrations | Glip = Chat + Apps + Integrations"

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[jmatsushita]

@engelgabriel @rodrigok No interest? Roadmap too full? Don't see the point?

[engelgabriel]

WE DO! Totaly! Sorry for not replying!

We are even working on the idea already... so anyone can create new packages that would register new message types (events, tasks, files) and room types (chat, whiteboard, conference call)

The link you sent was really helpful to make it more "real" what we have thought we wanted to do since the beginning of the project.

Do you want to join the team and help us get there? :)

[jmatsushita]

That's awesome to hear! I've been playing with meteor a bit but I don't have the bandwidth to contribute unfortunately. But whenever you guys have tasks and files up, then I'll probably beta test! Otherwise maybe the Gitter open source peeps (@malditogeek) would be into contributing to Rocket.Chat ? :)

[engelgabriel]

Related to #293

[graywolf336]

Related to this, would be neat to have meetings and meeting requests which you can mark certain members as required and they're reminded every so often to respond to the meeting request.

[engelgabriel]

Interesting idea o enhance autocomplete http://i.imgur.com/XX42La8.gif

[malditogeek]

@engelgabriel that's sweet! what app is that from?

[malditogeek]

@engelgabriel nevermind, found it https://chatgrape.com

[engelgabriel]

👍

[geekgonecrazy]

@engelgabriel that would be awesome. 👍

[jmatsushita]

# for linking items and !# for creating items?

[jmatsushita]

Is it me or https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Ops is actually a big step forward to allow this use case?

[marbetschar]

Are there any news regarding this issues original intent? Don't really get what the current state of this issue is ;)

With Glip, all of these activities take place within a conversation stream and in context, reducing the time and stress of managing multiple applications and email threads

[OlafHaag]

I wanted to ask about the state, too. I've read that there are some kind of packages one could install that would provide new functionality like this, but I couldn't locate an example. Not that I'd entirely understand it. Once, such a package would be installed on a server, would it then also be available to all mobile and dektop clients?
For now our team stuck with glip, because we previously had all the separate shared calender and tasks apps, but it was a hassle getting everyone setup. It's much easier to have everything in one place (well, polls and nextcloud integration are still missing), but I'd prefer an open source alternative like rocket.chat to a proprietary service.

[geekgonecrazy]

Anyone participating have ideas on what we could rename/refactor this ticket to be a true feature request? Right now its very generic and not really something someone can act or implement.

Please feel free to open a detail feature request on our forums where we can review and decide if we plan to implement. Feel free to also link to this ticket for historic. The better layed out we can get the request the easier it is for us to make definitive decision on whether we plan to implement or not.