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- 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)
- Slack for education: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/206646877-Slack-for-Education
Annual cost per team member, after the discount:
$12.00 per year — Standard plan
Kostis Pristouris: can't seem to find pricing in euros, or if European institutions are even eligible to thisthis Roy Meissner: Ask them, like we asked Atlassian for a discount/free license
Alternatives
Rocket Chat (alternative that also supports self-hosting)
See also https://rocket.chat/. Vinay mentioned this in slack #general:
Why not just host this on internal server? It won't take much time and efforts and a normal desktop can handle team chat.
Uni Bonn SDA group has been using Rocket Chat which is similar to Slack
Roy Meissner replied:
@vinay I think some bots were only able to post to the official slack, not any self hosted instances. E.g. Travis bot. But I'm not totally sure about it.
Hi @roymeissner, I didn't check fully and as I can't see which apps are currently our slack is using. But, Rocket Chat has been extremely popular in open source projects and in the industry. Heard about it from several noteworthy people so just a suggestion. It may be interesting to look at it in the decision process. It even provides hosted solution for 500 users at Euro 50/month
Confluence
What makes Slack not just team chat?
The team has been using slack in ways more involved that just a team chat, in this section we might share use cases that have made Slack essential in comparison to the alternatives
- Bot Integrations (Travis, Coverage, G-Drive, ....) and thus automation (E.g. Release on Github → Slack → Twitter/Google/Facebook post about it)
- Quick Team file-sharing