cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/26910708
My small company (less than 30 employees) has been using Skype for internal group meetings and messaging. Since it’s closing, we’re looking for alternatives.
I think few people in the company are privacy minded (one of the higher ups had to get scolded to stop using some random AI to listen to all his meetings and write summaries), so we need something with a low barrier to entry.
We have basically no IT department, so self hosting would be a challenge. We do self host a redmine server via docker, and we have to connect to it via VPN when we’re off-site (we have several full time remote employees).
Our feature requirements are: Group and individual messaging Screen sharing Meetings up to 2 hours Inexpensive Meetings with up to 10 participants Windows (some people use Skype from their phones also, but not a requirement) Minimal friction to setup and use Minimal bugs (mature)
Some of the ideas floated: Teams Discord Google Meet Signal Telegram Jami
I really don’t think we could pull off Matrix, but am I wrong? Which of these ideas bothers you the least? Is there something else I’m overlooking?
Same situation as you, we’re choosing to use Mattermost, it’s like Slack but we’re being more with this free version. After all our testing so far it works great.
On the free version of Mattermost, can you do team meetings with say 6 people, audio and screen share? It looks like maybe you can only do 1:1?
You can do groups I’m pretty sure using the Jitsi integration. This basically makes a jitsi window open up inside it, works pretty well. To get my mic to work I had to open a link to a browser but it was fine. So far we like Mattermost a lot.