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For a summary of what a paid plan offers please also refer to this slack page: https://slidewiki.slack.com/pricing. Our case will be only for the Standard plan. In the alternatives section we should list any idea we may have that could serve our needs without moving to a paid plan.

Pros

Main advantage: already using it, would like to recover old messages already there.

• 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

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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 this Roy Meissner: Ask them, like we asked Atlassian for a discount/free license

Alternatives

Need to investigate export/import slack data options as well:

https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201658943-Export-your-team-s-Slack-history

https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204897248-Guide-to-Slack-data-exports

Rocket Chat (alternative that also supports self-hosting)

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• https://www.blackducksoftware.com/about/news-events/releases/2015-open-source-rookies-year
• https://rocket.chat/features

HipChat Edu as Part of our Atlassian Suite

• Very tight integration with JIRA/Confluence

• Travis bot available!

What makes Slack not just team chat?

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