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.