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Background

The SlideWiki development team has been using the free plan for Slack extensively for some time now, and among other things we've come to the point that there are messages/discussions that may have importance, that we currently cannot really access due to limitations in the free plan. There have been discussions before about upgrading to a paid plan, but they were discarded. We would like to reopen them and invite every member of the dev team to detail why each of them thinks we should move to a paid plan. 

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• Unlimited searchable message archives:
  currently we have reached a point where we can't access old discussions

• Custom User Groups to reach a team or department:
  this might allow for bringing non-developers (like trial partners) in closer coordination with developers

• Group voice and video calls, Screen sharing:
  currently we are improvising with whatever we have available (skype, hangouts, gotomeeting) for breakout sessions between team members, it could prove useful to consolidate those in a single technology

• Unlimited apps and service integrations
  We currently use a minimal set of apps/integrations, one reason is that we can't, as the limit is only 10.

• 10GB file storage per team member

• Slack for non-profits / education: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204368833
  

Cons

• Pricing: according to Benjamin Wulff: there are currently 42 users signed up - cheapest option on Slack is 6.25 eur per month per user thus 42 x 6.25 = *262.5 per month*, *3150,- per year* (because if you choose to charge by month it goes up to 7.50 per person per month) this does not include the discounts for non-profits/educational organisations

Alternatives

Rocket Chat (alternative that also supports self-hosting)

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